Airport '77

"Flight 23 has crashed in the Bermuda Triangle... passengers still alive, trapped underwater..."

1977 1h 54m EN

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★5.6TMDB · 343●36Metacritic★5.8IMDB · 13,745

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Synopsis

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Flight 23 has crashed in the Bermuda Triangle after a hijacking gone wrong. Now the surviving passengers must brave panic, slow leaks, oxygen depletion, and more while attempting a daring plan, all while 200 feet underwater.

“Flight 23 has crashed in the Bermuda Triangle... passengers still alive, trapped underwater...”

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Cast

Jack Lemmon
Don Gallagher
Lee Grant
Karen Wallace
Brenda Vaccaro
Eve Clayton
Joseph Cotten
Nicholas St. Downs III
Olivia de Havilland
Emily Livingston
Darren McGavin
Stan Buchek
Christopher Lee
Martin Wallace
George Kennedy
Joe Patroni

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Jerry Jameson
Writers: David Spector, Michael Scheff, H.A.L. Craig
Languages: English, Hungarian
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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Grossed $91M — a 15.2× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.

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ERA

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49 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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3 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, Hungarian.

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CINEMA

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Part of the "Airport Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Jerry Jameson, shot by Philip H. Lathrop. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by John Cacavas. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor J. Terry Williams shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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8 / 8

CAST

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Jack Lemmon and Lee Grant and Brenda Vaccaro carry the top of the cast.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Jerry Jameson directs. Philip H. Lathrop behind the camera. John Cacavas scores. J. Terry Williams cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English, Hungarian.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Grossed $91M — a 15.2× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.
249 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
3Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, Hungarian.
4Part of the "Airport Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
5Directed by Jerry Jameson, shot by Philip H. Lathrop. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by John Cacavas. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor J. Terry Williams shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Jack Lemmon and Lee Grant and Brenda Vaccaro carry the top of the cast.
9Marketing tagline: "Flight 23 has crashed in the Bermuda Triangle... passengers still alive, trapped underwater...".
10IMDB entry: tt0075648 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
11Classified under 19 themes, including "rescue", "airplane", "stewardess", "painting".

The technical file

Cinematography: Philip H. Lathrop
Original score: John Cacavas
Editing: J. Terry Williams
Production design: George C. Webb
Costume design: Edith Head
Makeup / hair: Connie Nichols
Stunt coordinator: Stan Barrett
Runtime: 114 min · 1h 54m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $6,000,000
Box office: $91,100,000
Return: 1518% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG
IMDB: Airport '77 (1977)
Metacritic: 36/100
IMDB rating: 5.8/10 · 13,745 votes
MPAA: PG

Awards

Nominated for 2 Oscars. 2 nominations total

Part of

Airport Collection

"Airport", based on the best selling novel by Arthur Hailey is an Academy Award nominated disaster film that spawned three sequels: Airport '75, Airport '77, and the campy Airport '79 (The Concorde).

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Jerry Jameson

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JPV8522021-04-02
★ 6/10
Gets a little slow in the third act during the scuba rescue part but picks up a bit and finishes well enough. Having now seen three of these, while far from great, I'm a sucker for the Airport movies, as preposterous as they can be at times. 3.0/5
CinemaSerf2022-05-30
★ 6/10
Despite - or perhaps because of - a stellar cast, this is a really poor disaster movie that marries the original "Airport" film (1970) with aspects of the "Poseidon Adventure" (1972). James Stewart features sparingly as the owner of an airliner packed full of passengers that finds the Bermuda Triangle the least of it's worries as it faces fog - and an hijack! Captained by Jack Lemmon ("Gallagher") who is ably aided by the super-steward "Karen" (Lee Grant), the incredibly spacious aircraft now finds itself under water and somewhat off course. Can they manage to get to surface and alert would be rescuers? What do you think? Sadly, this is all just a bit too preposterous for words. The last half hour sees the likes of Christopher Lee; Olivia de Havilland and Joseph Cotton caught up in a series of mini-melodramas as their lives and foibles are aired for us all to see - and none too interestingly, either. The special effects were clearly filmed in a fish tank (albeit one for big fish); the dialogue is fairly bland and the John Cacavas score tries hard to pick up much of the heavy lifting from a cast that neither gelled nor shone here. Happily, we were coming to the end of this often successful genre now - and certainly the idea had been well flogged to death by the time this appeared. Not awful, indeed watchable if it is raining outside, but sadly for such a glittering array of Hollywood royalty - eminently forgettable!