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The Concorde ... Airport '79 (1979)
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17 August 1979 (USA)
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At twice the speed of sound, can the Concorde evade attack?
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This film is the last of the 'Airport' genre which stars George Kennedy again in his aviation-disaster...
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Almost bad enough to be good.
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Alain Delon | ... | Capt. Paul Metrand | |
| Susan Blakely | ... | Maggie Whelan | |
| Robert Wagner | ... | Dr. Kevin Harrison | |
| Sylvia Kristel | ... | Isabelle | |
| George Kennedy | ... | Capt. Joe Patroni | |
| Eddie Albert | ... | Eli Sands | |
| Bibi Andersson | ... | Francine | |
| Charo | ... | Margarita | |
| John Davidson | ... | Robert Palmer | |
| Andrea Marcovicci | ... | Alicia Rogov | |
| Martha Raye | ... | Loretta | |
| Cicely Tyson | ... | Elaine | |
| Jimmie Walker | ... | Boisie | |
| David Warner | ... | Peter O'Neill | |
| Mercedes McCambridge | ... | Nelli |
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Also Known As:
Airport '79 (USA) (short title)
Airport '80: The Concorde (Philippines: English title)
Airport 1979 (International: English title) (informal title)
Airport 1980 (International: English title) (informal title)
The Concorde (USA) (short title)
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Airport '80: The Concorde (Philippines: English title)
Airport 1979 (International: English title) (informal title)
Airport 1980 (International: English title) (informal title)
The Concorde (USA) (short title)
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123 min | USA:103 min (DVD)
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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UK:A |
UK:PG (video rating) |
Australia:PG |
Iceland:16 (video rating) |
Singapore:PG |
USA:PG (Certificate #25694) |
Finland:K-16 |
Iceland:L |
Norway:12
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Martha Raye's final feature film.
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Continuity: When the Concorde lands in France, the nose is alternately lowered and raised between shots.
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Alicia Rogov:
I want to show the whole world that you don't need to be 15 and have the figure of boy to win a gold medal.
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Referenced in Boom! Hollywood's Greatest Disaster Movies (2000) (V)
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In the beginning, there was "Airport", an A-list, ultra-slick adaptation of a best-selling book, nominated for multiple Oscars (including Best Picture!) Then came "Airport 1975" with too much humor (intentional and unintentional) and Karen Black flying a damaged 747. "Airport '77" had a private plane sinking beneath the ocean while rich passengers dropped like flies. In an inane attempt to continue the exploitation of the original film (and cash in on the notoriety of the then-new Concorde, the fastest commercial plane ever), this film came along and ended the series for good. A year later, "Airplane!" would slam the coffin lid and seal it with it's hysterical sending up of the many clichés of the air-disaster genre. Here, Wagner is a high-powered industrialist who's been selling arms to enemies of the U.S. When his reporter mistress Blakely is informed of this, he tries kill her. After she boards the Concorde en route to Moscow, he (ludicrously) decides to pull out every stop in the book to demolish the aircraft, even though it is full of Olympians, TV journalists, music legends, human organs and little old ladies who can't stay out of the bathroom! The entire film is both stagnant and simultaneously uproarious at the same time. The director, writer, editor and the actors can't seem to get ANYTHING right! (See Blakely's ridiculously unconvincing newscast in which she never once looks into the camera and in which clips from events AS THEY ARE HAPPENING IN REAL TIME parade across the screen.) It also contains some of the most abominable blue-screen and model special effects ever to be seen in a major studio film. The cast of the film is huge and full of names, though most of them are given, literally, nothing to do but embarrass themselves. Wagner looks very tired and hardly bothers to vary his facial expressions. Blakely works hard but is defeated by the stupidity of the character and the script. Kennedy (the one actor who was in all four films) is promoted to Captain this time, but is reduced to cracking crude sexual jokes and (in the film's most celebratedly lunatic scene) cracking open the cockpit window and shooting off a flare! Haggard, former screen-god Delon as another pilot tries to beat preposterous dialogue like, "Your hair is my french fries" in his affair with sex kitten stewardess Kristel (whose calf-length uniform has a split up to her thigh!) Other oddities include McCambridge spouting a dreadful Russian accent and flouncing around in curtain-like tops as a gymnastics coach, Walker as a pot-smoking sax player, Lewis as a jazz legend (!) who feels she may be losing it, Schreiber as a Russian coach with a deaf daughter (at least she can't hear Lewis singing!) and Raye as a grandma with a bladder control problem (first dentures and now this?! What? Did June Allyson turn the part down?) Special mention must be given to the side-splitting appearance of Tyson as a mother escorting (!) a frozen heart to her dying son. (Since when do parents go off and collect organs while their kid is expiring somewhere else??) In an apparent attempt to disappear from this rancid film, she hides her face under every imaginable object. Already buried under Victoria Principal's fright wig from "Earthquake", she uses hankies, a clutch purse, blankets, ANYTHING to obscure her face from being seen, eventually turning away from the camera entirely! The endless cast list also contains Albert as the airline owner and Danning as his trophy wife, Davidson as a reporter, Charo as a pushy passenger attempting to stowaway a Chihuahua and Marcovicci who gets another special mention. Unbelievably, she plays a 24 year-old gymnast (!) going for her third gold medal, which is crazy enough except that she was 31 in real life! Just one more nutty aspect of this thoroughly retarded film. Perhaps the most bizarre of all is the fact that the plane goes through several traumas, spinning violently and nearly crashing, yet after a layover in Paris, virtually every single passenger GETS BACK ON! As if things weren't bad enough, the Olympics that were pushed so heavily in this movie wound up being boycotted that year by the U.S., so the whole film was outdated before it was even released anyway! Good for a few laughs, but worthless as drama.