Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 107 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Mild
- Frights
- Mild
The story
When an in-flight collision incapacitates the pilots of an airplane bound for Los Angeles, stewardess Nancy Pryor is forced to take over the controls. From the ground, her boyfriend Alan Murdock, a retired test pilot, tries to talk her through piloting and landing the 747 aircraft. Worse yet, the anxious passengers — among which are a noisy nun and a cranky man — are aggravating the already tense atmosphere.
- helicopter
- husband wife relationship
- airplane
- cataclysm
- airport
- based on novel or book
- guitar
- stewardess
- pilot
- alcoholism
The bill
Charlton Heston
Alan Murdock
Karen Black
Nancy Pryor
George Kennedy
Joe Patroni
Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Captain Stacy
- Susan Clark — Helen Patroni
- Helen Reddy — Sister Ruth
- Linda Blair — Janice Abbott
- Dana Andrews — Scott Freeman
- Roy Thinnes — Urias
- Sid Caesar — Barney
- Myrna Loy — Mrs. Devaney
- Ed Nelson — Major John Alexander
- Nancy Olson — Mrs. Abbott
- Larry Storch — Glenn Purcell
- Martha Scott — Sister Beatrice
- Directed
- Jack Smight
- Written
- Don Ingalls
Production
- Rating
- 5.8 / 10 · 305 ratings
- Studio
- Universal Pictures
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1970Airport
Where it starts.
Airport 1975
1974 · You’re here
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.
