Airport 1975 |  | Category: Video
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Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 5203
Media: VHS Tape
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
UPC: 018713041074
EAN: 0018713041074
ASIN: B0000065LE
Theatrical Release Date: October 18, 1974
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| Customer Reviews:
 Better than most people give it credit for! July 31, 2009
David K. Acheson (Brampton, ON, Canada)
Airport 1975 is one of those films you are either going to like or not. It truly represents both the worst and the best of the 1970's disaster flics. Its often been lampooned - and for good reason! Yet, after not seeing it for many decades, I found it wasn't exactly the disaster everyone tends to make it out to be.
What's wrong with the film? Too little character development and too many big named stars with nothing to do. In a Hollywood where egos rule, one can see why a legend like Gloria Swanson who hadn't been in the limelight for years would accept a large salary to show up and write her own lines. Unfortunately, this "return" was not another Sunset Boulevard and the talents of Helen Reddy, Linda Blair, Myrna Loy and Sid Caesar could be put to better use.
The pluses? Karen Black is by far the stand out in the movie. The cross eyed actress with that scary frozen stare can fly any plane I am on at any time. LOL! The aerial photography is also second to none - unlike the embarrasing model used in the original Airport, its great to see no expense spared to gussy up a real 747 and fly it in spectacular shots along with a military helicopter, a lear jet and mountain ranges.
The innocence of the days when flying was fun is also interesting to note in the film. The captain smoking in the cockpit, the ultra-nausea color scheme of the cabins and the flight crew joking about their next score while people actually looked forward to going someplace. I rememer flying before the security conscience regime of today and this movie just could not work the same way if it was remade today. Which is likely its biggest problem - it screams the 1970s. However if you are a fan of the 1970s and disaster flics you might be enticed to sit through two hours of this stuff.
Definitely not the best disaster flic - the original Airport was far more classier and Airport '77 at least had deeper characterizations. Its cheesy fun at its best though and its a well made cheese.
 Buy this version unless they remaster the Terminal Pack... May 4, 2004
I won't comment on the film or the acting; it's hard to take any Airport film seriously after Airplane! skewered the genre.However, if you appreciate the film for what it is, fun entertainment, this is certainly one of the better in the 70's disaster film genre and the special effects have held up well over the years. If you're interested in this film, I strongly urge you to buy this copy instead of or in addition to the Airport Terminal Pack; there is a mastering error that does not fully expand the film horizontally in that collection, with the result that objects are somewhat compressed horizontally from their true proportions. Another reviewer's references to "tire ovals" and "stick people" is a bit of an exaggeration, but you'll wonder why the plane is so short and stubby and why the airport's pickup trucks look as if they have 4' beds. :-) In short, another mastering error on Universal's part and, frankly, a somewhat better transfer on GoodTimes' part make THIS the better transfer of Airport 1975...
A Disaster Film Classic but bad acting March 21, 2004
I recently bought the Airport Terminal pack for myself because I always had a passion for disaster films. Before I bought the terminal pack, I wanted to see if I could rent the Airport sequels at the VHS store, they didn't have them, when I finally bought the terminal and when I saw Airport 75, I thought it was a classic for a disaster film, but for acting i though it was a joke, in the entire film, from the beginning and to the end, Karen Black who plays the Head Stewdess on a Boeing 747 that collides with a small private plane during flight looks like she has her eyes crossed, now that was hiliarious! Her acting was just as bad, it became even worse when she had to take instructins for Al Murdock ( Charlston Heston) to fly the plane, that scene was really painful to watch, and one other thing to, the man who was flying the small private who eventually crashed into Flight #409 looked like he was having a heart attack when he lost control, before that happened, if he did have a heart attack then why didn't the movie tell anything about heart problems, I guess that was just to add excitment to the movie. All in All the movie was good, the acting was a joke, esepically Karen Black's acting!
 Superfluous from Beginning to End March 21, 2004
Harald T. Arnesen (Reno, NV United States)
I first watched this movie on NBC back in April 1977. Though edited to make it fit its two hour timeslot and allow room for commercials, I later purchased the video from Goodtimes Video to watch the parts not shown by NBC. From the beginning of the movie shot at Dulles Airport in northern Virginia, the cast who star as the crew and passengers aboard Columbia Airlines flight 409, board a Boeing 747-123 (on loan from American Airlines) and it is typical Hollywood overacting, particularly the passengers. Some of the crew, especially Erik Estrada, who plays flight engineer Julio, does quite a bit of womanizing with one of the stewardesses. I've flown a lot during my lifetime, even aboard 747s, and have never heard so much redundancy as depicted in this movie. The sound effects were a little primitive from the Boeing 747 sounding like a Boeing 707 on take-off down to the telephone gongs that are the same ones used on the beginning of the "Rockford Files". This was in the days before George Lucas' Industrial Light and Magic came into the vogue. By the way, his film "American Graffiti" was the inflight movie. Some faults are present in the film. The private pilot (Dana Andrews) identifies his plane as "two-three-two-zulu" instead of the correct identitication: N9750Y. Another fault was at the time the stricken 747 lands at Salt Lake City and runs out of runway before Charlton Heston has to turn the nose tiller to make the plane go left at a high rate of speed. Here, we see the passengers get thrown to the left instead of to the right. Another fault we see is that the passengers are catching a glimpse of the daring midair transfer. In reality it would be difficult for anyone to see such an operation. If you were to watch the movie more than once, you could see all these errors.
Better transfer than the "Terminal Pack" transfer February 27, 2004
Yarby (Medina, OH United States)
As hard as it may be to believe, this being a "Good Times" release, the transfer on this DVD is better than that included in the "Terminal Pack". Yes, the "Terminal Pack" transfer is anamorphic, and this one has SLIGHTLY more grain....but this transfer is in the correct proportion. Tires are round and the actors don't look like stick people.My recommendation...buy this disk to supplement your "Terminal Pack".
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