Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 137 min
- Age rating
- G
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Mild
- Frights
- Mild
The story
An airport manager tries to keep his terminals open during a snowstorm, while a suicide bomber plots to blow up a Boeing 707 airliner in flight.
- airplane
- airport
- based on novel or book
- panic
- bomb
- stowaway
- snowstorm
- landing
- deception
- disaster
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Burt Lancaster
Mel Bakersfeld
Dana Wynter
Cindy Bakersfeld
Dean Martin
Vernon Demerest
Barbara Hale
Sarah Demerest
- Jean Seberg — Tanya Livingston
- Jacqueline Bisset — Gwen Meighen
- George Kennedy — Joe Patroni
- Jodean Lawrence — Marie Patroni
- Helen Hayes — Ada Quonsett
- John Findlater — Peter Coakley
- Van Heflin — D. O. Guerrero
- Maureen Stapleton — Inez Guerrero
- Barry Nelson — Anson Harris
- Eileen Wesson — Judy Barton
- Robert Patten — Captain Benson
- Directed
- George Seaton
- Written
- George Seaton
Production
- Rating
- 6.5 / 10 · 465 ratings
- Studio
- Ross Hunter Productions
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1970 · You’re hereAirport
Where it starts.
Airport 1975
1974
Airport '77
1977
The Concorde... Airport '79
1979
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
