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The Concorde... Airport '79

  • 1979
  • PG
  • 1h 53m
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4.4/10
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The Concorde... Airport '79 (1979)
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A supersonic airborne disaster. In order to survive a flight headed for the Moscow Olympics, passengers of the Concorde must endure aerial acrobatics to dodge missiles and survive a device t... Read allA supersonic airborne disaster. In order to survive a flight headed for the Moscow Olympics, passengers of the Concorde must endure aerial acrobatics to dodge missiles and survive a device that decompresses the plane.A supersonic airborne disaster. In order to survive a flight headed for the Moscow Olympics, passengers of the Concorde must endure aerial acrobatics to dodge missiles and survive a device that decompresses the plane.

  • Director
    • David Lowell Rich
  • Writers
    • Arthur Hailey
    • Jennings Lang
    • Eric Roth
  • Stars
    • Alain Delon
    • Susan Blakely
    • Robert Wagner
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  • IMDb RATING
    4.4/10
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    • Director
      • David Lowell Rich
    • Writers
      • Arthur Hailey
      • Jennings Lang
      • Eric Roth
    • Stars
      • Alain Delon
      • Susan Blakely
      • Robert Wagner
    • 99User reviews
    • 51Critic reviews
    • 39Metascore
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    • Awards
      • 2 nominations

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    The Concorde... Airport '79 (1979)
    Sylvia Kristel, Eddie Albert, Alain Delon, George Kennedy, Robert Wagner, and Susan Blakely in The Concorde... Airport '79 (1979)
    Charlton Heston, Burt Lancaster, Jacqueline Bisset, Jack Lemmon, George Kennedy, Dean Martin, and Robert Wagner in The Concorde... Airport '79 (1979)
    Sylvia Kristel and George Kennedy in The Concorde... Airport '79 (1979)
    Sylvia Kristel, Cicely Tyson, and Nicolas Coster in The Concorde... Airport '79 (1979)
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    Sylvia Kristel and Alain Delon in The Concorde... Airport '79 (1979)
    Robert Wagner in The Concorde... Airport '79 (1979)
    George Kennedy in The Concorde... Airport '79 (1979)
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    Alain Delon
    Alain Delon
    • Capt. Paul Metrand
    Susan Blakely
    Susan Blakely
    • Maggie Whelan
    Robert Wagner
    Robert Wagner
    • Dr. Kevin Harrison
    George Kennedy
    George Kennedy
    • Capt. Joe Patroni
    Sylvia Kristel
    Sylvia Kristel
    • Isabelle
    Eddie Albert
    Eddie Albert
    • Eli Sands
    Bibi Andersson
    Bibi Andersson
    • Francine
    Charo
    Charo
    • Margarita
    John Davidson
    John Davidson
    • Robert Palmer
    Andrea Marcovicci
    Andrea Marcovicci
    • Alicia Rogov
    Martha Raye
    Martha Raye
    • Loretta
    Cicely Tyson
    Cicely Tyson
    • Elaine
    Jimmie 'JJ' Walker
    Jimmie 'JJ' Walker
    • Boisie
    • (as Jimmie Walker)
    David Warner
    David Warner
    • Peter O'Neill
    Mercedes McCambridge
    Mercedes McCambridge
    • Nelli
    Avery Schreiber
    Avery Schreiber
    • Coach Markov
    Sybil Danning
    Sybil Danning
    • Amy
    Monica Lewis
    Monica Lewis
    • Gretchen
    • Director
      • David Lowell Rich
    • Writers
      • Arthur Hailey
      • Jennings Lang
      • Eric Roth
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    • Trivia
      The Concorde featured in the film was the seventh one built. It first flew as F-WTSC on January 31, 1975, as part of the fleet of the aircraft company Aérospatiale. In May 1975, the registration number was changed to F-BTSC, with its serial number being No. 203. The plane was leased from Aerospatiale (France) for the movie, leased to Air France in 1976, and sold to them in October 1980. Pope John Paul II flew on the plane in 1989.

      The actual plane used in this film crashed in Gonesse, France, on July 25, 2000, while trying to make an emergency landing at Le Bourget Airport (the same airport as in the movie). A metallic strip on the runway at Charles due Gaulle Airport had fallen from a Continental Airlines DC-10 (that had taken off minutes earlier) and punctured a tire on the Concorde's left main wheel, rupturing a fuel tank, with the leaking fuel catching fire and causing the plane to lose power. All 109 passengers and crew on-board, plus four people on the ground were killed.
    • Goofs
      The Concorde was not designed to perform a loop-the-loop, but it could do a barrel-roll. Considering the power available, if the plane were below mach speeds and the loop were large enough, it is possible for such a maneuver to work.
    • Quotes

      Peter O'Neill: Last night I woke up in a cold sweat, I dreamt I was being chased by a giant banana.

    • Alternate versions
      José Ferrer appears in the footage added to the film when it was shown on ABC-TV. He does not appear in the theatrical release.
    • Connections
      Edited into Murder, She Wrote: Tough Guys Don't Die (1985)

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    Almost bad enough to be good.
    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.
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    • Release date
      • August 17, 1979 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • English
      • French
      • Spanish
    • Also known as
      • Airport '79
    • Filming locations
      • Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport, Roissy-en-France, Val-d'Oise, France
    • Production company
      • Universal Pictures
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    • Budget
      • $14,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $13,015,688
    • Gross worldwide
      • $13,015,688
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 53 minutes
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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