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Airport '79: Concorde

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Airport '79: Concorde
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2hrs 3min
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1979
Synopsis: The fourth Airport film may be the silliest of them all, as George Kennedy returns, this time co-piloting with Alain Delon. The plane is on its way to the Moscow Olympics, has a bomb on board, and gets fired upon with missiles that necessitate flying upside-down. A look at the cast list resembles a bad episode of Fantasy Island, but it's always fun to see shameless touches like casting Mercedes McCambridge (Johnny Guitar) as the coach of the Soviet team. If you don't understand the significance of ... Full Synopsis
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This movie represented the point in the Airport films from Universal at which they directly anticipated Jim Abrahams' Airplane! (1980) in look, execution, and content, and almost mapped out Abrahams' and the Zucker brothers' formula for the successful parodies. Indeed, the shots of the Concorde flying upside down and doing loops and rolls, with appropriate interior scenes depicting the havoc among ... Full Review
Featured Cast
Capt. Paul Metrand
Maggie Whelan
Kevin Harrison
Isabelle
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