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Airport
starring: Charlton Heston, Burt Lancaster, James Stewart, Jacqueline Bisset, Lee Grant

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Binding: DVD
EAN: 5050582422580
Format: Box set, PAL, Widescreen
Label: Universal Pictures UK
Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UK
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: Universal Pictures UK
Region Code: 2
Release Date: April 24, 2006
Studio: Universal Pictures UK
Sales Rank: 18501

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Awful and fun
If you can find this at a decent price - I got my set for just over £5 - snap it up for nostalgia value and sheer entertainment.

The series starts off very stylishly with the soapy, melodramatic Airport (1970), and declines in quality over time. My favourite things about the original are Alfred Newman's classy score, the schmaltzy gimmicks (such as the overused split screen) and the excellent cast.

Airport '75 is surprisingly well made, with spectacular photography and generally high production values. At the same time it is terribly cheesy and replete with bad dialogue, making this the prime target for the later Airplane! spoof. But it's fun and occasionally suspenseful. I enjoyed cameos from the likes of Hollywood ... Read More:

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- Please Fasten Your Seatbelt and Kiss Your Bum Goodbye
This is a great little boxset which contains all 4 of the Airport Disaster movies,

"Airport"
"Airport 75"
"Airport 77"
"Airport 79 The Concorde"

The one actor appearing in all four films is George Kennedy in role of Joe Patroni. Patroni's character evolves over the series and he goes from a chief mechanic in Airport, a Vice President of Operations in Airport 1975, a consultant in Airport '77, and an experienced pilot in The Concorde...Airport '79.

Individually these films are ok but well worth buying as a boxset

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- Frequent flyers
Although The Poseidon Adventure gets all the credit, Airport is the film that really kicked off the 70s disaster craze. Unlike its three follow-ups, this adaptation of Arthur Hailey's doorstop novel really is as much about the snowbound airport as it is the imperilled plane, one of many plots the movie juggles. Hailey had built his novel around a 1956 Canadian TV movie he wrote called Flight Into Danger, but much of it plays like a Peyton Place-esquire soap opera: will embattled airport manager Burt Lancaster stay married to Dana Wynter or to his job - or will he go off into the sunrise with that nice airline rep Jean Seberg? Will pilot Dean Martin leave his wife now he's got stewardess Jacqueline Bisset up the duff? Will Helen Hayes' scene-stealing ... Read More:

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- The terminally boring pack?
Perhaps some childhood memories should remain undisturbed..
The Airport movies were classic disaster movies of their time, and seminal movie going moments in the seventies. Alas, on reviewing these as a collection it is clear time has done them no favours.
Ironically, it is the oldest movie that has dated the least. Airport, starring Burt Lancaster and Dean Martin, still holds the attention now. It was the least thrilling of the series, relying more on characters and melodrama for its entertainment, in keeping with its Arthur Hailey source novel. Here, while there is ultimately drama in the air when a bomber threatens to blow up Dean Martin's plane, most of the exposition takes place on the ground, and the drama is about the running ... Read More:

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- A Delightful Airport Collection
If you are an avid movie fan like me you have probably realised that the new 'craze' of movie shopping is the Box Set. Not two years ago I hated box sets because I loved to have all of my single DVDs in a nice neat order, but now even I have fallen for the charms of the box set. Thankfully studios and promoters have discovered that the box set needs to be elegant and attractive but also as compact as possible. What does this have to do with Airport? Well, this 4-Disc set is a lovely M-Lock style package that has its own sturdy, attractive slip-case. Each disc contains one of the Airport films of the 70s and the four in order are Airport (1970), Airport 1975, Airport '77 and Airport '79: The Concorde. It is VERY important to realise that this set inlcudes ... Read More:

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