Airport 1975

Airport 1975
Theatrical release poster by George Akimoto[1]
Directed byJack Smight
Written byDon Ingalls
Based onAirport
by Arthur Hailey
Produced byWilliam Frye
Starring
CinematographyPhilip H. Lathrop
Edited byJ. Terry Williams
Music byJohn Cacavas
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Universal Pictures
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • October 18, 1974 (1974-10-18)
Running time
106 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$3 million[2]
Box office$103 million

Airport 1975 (also known as Airport '75) is a 1974 American air disaster film and the first sequel to the successful 1970 film Airport. It was directed by Jack Smight, produced by William Frye, executive produced by Jennings Lang, and written by Don Ingalls.[3] The film stars Charlton Heston, Karen Black, George Kennedy and Gloria Swanson – as a fictionalized version of herself – in her final film role.[4]

The plot concerns the dramatic events aboard an airborne Boeing 747 when a small aircraft crashes into the cockpit, causing the fatalities of the First Officer and Flight Engineer and the blinding of the Captain, leaving no one aboard qualified to take the controls. Airport 1975 was the seventh highest-grossing movie of 1974 at the US and Canada box office.

  1. ^ "Airport 1975 Movie Poster".
  2. ^ Box Office Information for Airport 1975." IMDb. Retrieved: September 23, 2012.
  3. ^ "Airport 1975". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved March 1, 2016.
  4. ^ Heston 1995, p. 520.