I remember sitting in the den on family movie night and watching this movie. I remember holding my mother's hand real tight when the plane crashed because we had just been on a plane a few weeks earlier. The childhood memories this brings back. I had forgotten how we watched movies every Sunday night.
I was 12 or 13 when this came out. I remember that’s when I learned-thanks to my science teacher-that planes hitting water is just like planes hitting concrete. I still enjoyed this movie, though! As a GenXer growing up in the ‘70s I loved the disaster movies that were so popular at that time.
In 1980 my family and I went on vacation to the States and we visited Universal Studios and I remembered there was a Airport '77 tour. As an audience we participated in a scene. That was great!
People who watch this movie for the first time now will only see the 2 hour version. Back in the day they used to show the longer cut which was around 3 hours and with commercials would take around 5 hours to watch from start to finish. The shorter version is the better one to watch.
I literally laughed out loud at that. Other possible tag lines: -Best of all, it’s better than that last one! -If you thought Airport ‘75 was bad, wait til you see this! -Hey, this one’s actually good!
Just watched this movie on Pluto TV (also on Tubi) for free; at 8 Years old when it first came out it was cool and all. But As an adult Navy veteran I must say to the Navy seriously needs to get the tax payers money back from the contractor of those rescue equipment. Those straps are supposed to be designed to lift a 770,000 tonne submarine at 3 times that depth and they broke on a 352 tonne plane at a mere 100 feet. My prayers and best wishes go out to the real rescue men and women, may you all stay safe. Plus the fully intacked plan would float for several hours to allow escape to life rafts that hold fifty people each. His emergency raft barely held him, he would have got to surface faster if he'd inflated his life vest and held onto the raft at it inflated. Too bad Dracula died, though. The Airport movies are more of a Drama than action though, it's more about human nature and our actions effect on others.
Despite the totally implausible story, this one was actually pretty well made and with acting that wasn't embarrassing. The special effects were pretty good.
I think like a lot of disaster films, you have to leave logic at the gate and expect the ridiculous, that way one can appreciate the genuine qualities of the film. I’m quite fond of this one myself, it’s totally implausible, but decent fun, great cast!
Disaster films 101, when the captain say don’t get too close the cargo door, do not get too close to the door, once the door opens, water will rush in like a tidal wave and you won’t get a chance to use your oxygen mask (Lee grant and Olivia de havilland were also in Irwin Allen’s the swarm the following year, 1978)
I recall reading in his biography that Keith Moon had been offered a role in this movie. Obviously that didn't happen but it would have been interesting if it did.
Oh i miss these old big cast classics disaster movies were brilliant.... they just don't bring them back for genre specials do they .... i would love some weekends binge watching disaster movies
Christopher Lee was in a TV mini series where he was the captain of a ship that sunk tot eh bottom of the sea and he lived in it for like 30 years with the passengers. I think knits called Goliath
I watched the first three on Netflix . The first one was edge-of-your-seat drama. Great cast. Airport 75 was not so great. And there wasn’t very much actual ‘airport’ in it. I liked Airport 77 very much! Being trapped underwater is about as frightening as it can get, plane crash wise.
How shallow is this water (ocean) that: a) the coast guard helicopter could see it from above, b) the pressure of the water didn’t collapse/crush the fuselage.
@@johnny1963ify I was joking. The plane still would have crumpled from the pressure, even at that much shallower depth. The movie took a lot of liberties with the laws of physics.
Because when I think action, I think Jack Lemmon. I'm actually more interested in the character actors in minor roles. The guy who won't open the train car from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Dracula from Blacula, and Robert Foxworth. And it's intersting that Darren McGavin is the only names actor who's mentioned by himself.
Darren McGavin was a TV star at the time with kids watching reruns of Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974-1975). maybe they thought mentioning him by himself might appeal to young people.
Not really necessary, other than George Kennedy's character of Joe Patroni who appears in all four Airport films, each film is a stand alone, self contained story. BTW, Kennedy is just a glorified cameo in this installment..he world graduate to Captain in the final outing, "Airport '79 The Concorde".
The impact of the engine in the water would have break the entire plane... The captain who emerges from the sea without any embolisms issues...or drowning before... 🤣🤣🤣 the plane seems to be 5 meters under the water, in the Atlantic Ocean?? 😂
Yes. Christopher Lee was already a famous actor for many years before he ever wielded a lightsaber. He played tons of roles, like the Man with the golden gun in James Bond, several movies as Dracula and other horror films, and he played Saruman in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. He also served in WW2.
obviously, ... even though lemmon was coming off the utter failure of "alex and the gypsy" with "earthquake" cutie genevieve bujold, (she was also in jennings lang's "swashbuckler") ... jack is just way too good for such frivolous high-concept material ... would love to know how much cash lang dished out to procure lemmon's participation in this thing ... "airport 75" notwithstanding, i think charlton heston would of been perfect casting and a lot of fun as the lead in this one ... needed way, way more of the venerable and always overheated "patroni", rather than the glorified cameo he was provided ...
What a good premise: a plane full of rich people. 😂 Do they WANT us to care? I guess it was the 70s and rich people were something people wanted to see …
One of my favorite movie experiences was seeing The Towering Inferno at the drive-in with my Dad. When they blew up the water tank at the end, a torrential downburst of rain hit us. It was coming down so fast you could barely see the screen. We lost it - thinking this was the greatest and funniest thing ever. We came home and woke up everyone we were still laughing so hard.
Forget about the miracle on the Hudson. This is perhaps the worst of the Airport sequels. All logic is thrown out the window in this ridiculous plot. The cast all look like they’re trying to escape this travesty and I’m not talking about the submerged airplane. Jack Lemmon acts like he drank 20 cups of coffee before each scene and James Stewart looks like he was awakened from a nap before his scenes. I won’t even get into Lee Grant’s shameless scenery chewing. This movie is one big plane wreck from start to finish. It’s one flight you should definitely miss.
Are we excluding The Concorde: Airport ‘79 from this list? Probably for the best, it is an appalling film, you know you’ve messed up when Euro rip-off of your film (Concorde Affair ‘79) is a much better film.
Lol "no one is going to drown the plane is pressurized" blah ha ha ha ha, so this was a 747 made out of steel not aluminum and water proof to boot? Let's see, pressurization 11 to 14 psi. Bleed air operated. Water pressure at 200 feet( saturation diving depth) 88 psi, yeap bear can crush depth.
The reason the plane was intact after crashing into the water was because they used to make planes with the same material they now make the black-boxes with..........cheap bastards zzzzzzzZING
The cast in this one was pure class!
This is one of my favorite disaster films.
I remember sitting in the den on family movie night and watching this movie. I remember holding my mother's hand real tight when the plane crashed because we had just been on a plane a few weeks earlier. The childhood memories this brings back. I had forgotten how we watched movies every Sunday night.
It is a nice thing to do.
SCREAMING, "CALM DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" doesn't usually calm people down...
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Because this comand usually precedes death
I was 12 or 13 when this came out. I remember that’s when I learned-thanks to my science teacher-that planes hitting water is just like planes hitting concrete.
I still enjoyed this movie, though! As a GenXer growing up in the ‘70s I loved the disaster movies that were so popular at that time.
The special effects looked pretty comparable to movies today... That is impressive...
Are you blind or am i...??😭😭
In 1980 my family and I went on vacation to the States and we visited Universal Studios and I remembered there was a Airport '77 tour. As an audience we participated in a scene. That was great!
I loved it, it was much better than Airport ‘75, I’m going to see it again and again.
Apart from James Bond, there was no greater hero of '70's action cinema than Joe Petroni.
I know right? 🙂
Right on!
He and Montgomery Scott are “unsung heroes”!
Buy him a box of cigars.
"The manual said that can't be done!"
"That's the good thing about a 707--it can do everything but read."
This is one of my all time fave movies! 🙂
Another fave ❤
I had Airport 75 and 77. Both had brilliant scores.
People who watch this movie for the first time now will only see the 2 hour version. Back in the day they used to show the longer cut which was around 3 hours and with commercials would take around 5 hours to watch from start to finish. The shorter version is the better one to watch.
Beautiful Florida scenery in the opening scene
For anyone that doesn't know jack lemons son Chris had a brief role as the radio guy
I saw that. And had a acting career later in the 80's and 90's
I liked, "Bigger, more exciting than Airport '75!" They were already supersizing movies back then! LOL
That did make me laugh... I guess Airport movies of the 70s are like iPhones today.... 😂🤣😂
I literally laughed out loud at that. Other possible tag lines:
-Best of all, it’s better than that last one!
-If you thought Airport ‘75 was bad, wait til you see this!
-Hey, this one’s actually good!
I remember watching this at the theaters.
I heard they were going to send the Seaview, but they were fighting a giant underwater monster. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
*Nelson almost saved them but one alien was on the way..😂😂😂😂*
LOL!!! nice reference to that tv series
Just watched this movie on Pluto TV (also on Tubi) for free; at 8 Years old when it first came out it was cool and all. But As an adult Navy veteran I must say to the Navy seriously needs to get the tax payers money back from the contractor of those rescue equipment. Those straps are supposed to be designed to lift a 770,000 tonne submarine at 3 times that depth and they broke on a 352 tonne plane at a mere 100 feet.
My prayers and best wishes go out to the real rescue men and women, may you all stay safe.
Plus the fully intacked plan would float for several hours to allow escape to life rafts that hold fifty people each. His emergency raft barely held him, he would have got to surface faster if he'd inflated his life vest and held onto the raft at it inflated. Too bad Dracula died, though.
The Airport movies are more of a Drama than action though, it's more about human nature and our actions effect on others.
75 and 77:the best of airport saga*
I like the original best. What did you think of the Concorde one?
Sully watched this and said hold my beer 😂😂
Thanks for the upload !!
Despite the totally implausible story, this one was actually pretty well made and with acting that wasn't embarrassing. The special effects were pretty good.
I think like a lot of disaster films, you have to leave logic at the gate and expect the ridiculous, that way one can appreciate the genuine qualities of the film. I’m quite fond of this one myself, it’s totally implausible, but decent fun, great cast!
I see trailers were spoiling plots even back then.
yeah didn't we just see the whole movie including the rescue
I LOVE this movie!!
Love this picture 🤩
Classic movie 🎥
All star cast 📸
Why are such great films forgotten?
Disaster films 101, when the captain say don’t get too close the cargo door, do not get too close to the door, once the door opens, water will rush in like a tidal wave and you won’t get a chance to use your oxygen mask
(Lee grant and Olivia de havilland were also in Irwin Allen’s the swarm the following year, 1978)
LOL that's good!
I recall reading in his biography that Keith Moon had been offered a role in this movie. Obviously that didn't happen but it would have been interesting if it did.
Oh i miss these old big cast classics disaster movies were brilliant.... they just don't bring them back for genre specials do they .... i would love some weekends binge watching disaster movies
1:43 Darren McGavin aka “The Old Man” from “A Christmas Story” 😊
Relax and please stay calm! Our inflight movie is Airport '77.
Love the all star cast 🎉
Christopher Lee was in a TV mini series where he was the captain of a ship that sunk tot eh bottom of the sea and he lived in it for like 30 years with the passengers. I think knits called Goliath
Great film 🎥
I watched the first three on Netflix . The first one was edge-of-your-seat drama. Great cast.
Airport 75 was not so great. And there wasn’t very much actual ‘airport’ in it.
I liked Airport 77 very much! Being trapped underwater is about as frightening as it can get, plane crash wise.
Fransisco scaramanga is under water 😢😢😢
How shallow is this water (ocean) that:
a) the coast guard helicopter could see it from above,
b) the pressure of the water didn’t collapse/crush the fuselage.
If only they had made that Titan submersible out of whatever material kept this plane intact under all that water pressure...
They were nowhere near as deep as the Titan submersible.
@@johnny1963ify I was joking. The plane still would have crumpled from the pressure, even at that much shallower depth. The movie took a lot of liberties with the laws of physics.
Is the best one in the airport film series? Haven't watched them yet.
@@jamescrumbs Believe it or not, it might be.
I love this movie. But there is an insanely obvious issue with the plot. A fully pressurized plane, NEVER WOULD HAVE SANK!!!
Because when I think action, I think Jack Lemmon. I'm actually more interested in the character actors in minor roles. The guy who won't open the train car from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Dracula from Blacula, and Robert Foxworth. And it's intersting that Darren McGavin is the only names actor who's mentioned by himself.
Darren McGavin was a TV star at the time with kids watching reruns of Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974-1975). maybe they thought mentioning him by himself might appeal to young people.
Looks interesting. I wonder if I should watch Airport 1975 before viewing this entry.
Not really necessary, other than George Kennedy's character of Joe Patroni who appears in all four Airport films, each film is a stand alone, self contained story. BTW, Kennedy is just a glorified cameo in this installment..he world graduate to Captain in the final outing, "Airport '79 The Concorde".
Well Airport 77 is bigger and more exciting than Airport 75.
That crash is extremely survivable. That jet wouldnt lose but .. actually, didnt lose anything, it was in perfect tact, submerged safely underwater
😂😂😂😂😂😂
The impact of the engine in the water would have break the entire plane... The captain who emerges from the sea without any embolisms issues...or drowning before... 🤣🤣🤣 the plane seems to be 5 meters under the water, in the Atlantic Ocean?? 😂
@@davix8669It’s utter bollocks but it makes for good entertainment! 😂
Surprising the wing didn't rip off when it hit the oil rig !! ??
This movie terrified me
Lee grant and Christopher Lee
All of these actors are no longer with us.
22 years later, EgyptAir fell also in the ocean, but this time there was no suvivers.
1:30 that's Count Dooku from star wars????
Yes. Christopher Lee was already a famous actor for many years before he ever wielded a lightsaber. He played tons of roles, like the Man with the golden gun in James Bond, several movies as Dracula and other horror films, and he played Saruman in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. He also served in WW2.
Count dooku no that’s mother fuckin Dracula
I never heard of this movie I saw a clip on movie I knew it going to be a good action movie.
It’s more of a drama
Now I could be wrong but I don’t think that plane would have sunk with all that air in there.
My fave
obviously, ... even though lemmon was coming off the utter failure of "alex and the gypsy" with "earthquake" cutie genevieve bujold, (she was also in jennings lang's "swashbuckler") ... jack is just way too good for such frivolous high-concept material ... would love to know how much cash lang dished out to procure lemmon's participation in this thing ... "airport 75" notwithstanding, i think charlton heston would of been perfect casting and a lot of fun as the lead in this one ... needed way, way more of the venerable and always overheated "patroni", rather than the glorified cameo he was provided ...
I agree
Kennedy has more scenes in the longer TV cut which is really the superior version of the film.
The creators of Airplane! should have done a parody of this movie, starring Namor & Aquaman. And guest starring....Godzilla!
I like how the dis airport 75 😂
1:59 - Chris Lemmon, son of Jack Lemmon !! So Cuuute!!!!♥♥♥
Terror in the skies
Music composed and conducted by John Cacavas
Other then a great all star cast,THIS MOVIE CUD HAVE BEEN BETTER,the type you only see once.🙈😉
This movie was remade in 2024 with the title of "No Way Up"... though, it really should have been titled "Sharks on a Plane".
What a good premise: a plane full of rich people. 😂 Do they WANT us to care? I guess it was the 70s and rich people were something people wanted to see …
good disaster film
the number one is Inferno Tower
One of my favorite movie experiences was seeing The Towering Inferno at the drive-in with my Dad. When they blew up the water tank at the end, a torrential downburst of rain hit us. It was coming down so fast you could barely see the screen. We lost it - thinking this was the greatest and funniest thing ever. We came home and woke up everyone we were still laughing so hard.
@@briankooker2627
Haha 😂 A very immersive screening of the film, what a great story!
loved this movie one of the best
Forget about the miracle on the Hudson. This is perhaps the worst of the Airport sequels. All logic is thrown out the window in this ridiculous plot. The cast all look like they’re trying to escape this travesty and I’m not talking about the submerged airplane.
Jack Lemmon acts like he drank 20 cups of coffee before each scene and James Stewart looks like he was awakened from a nap before his scenes. I won’t even get into Lee Grant’s shameless scenery chewing.
This movie is one big plane wreck from start to finish. It’s one flight you should definitely miss.
Wonder if they lived
All three airport movies were great!
Are we excluding The Concorde: Airport ‘79 from this list? Probably for the best, it is an appalling film, you know you’ve messed up when Euro rip-off of your film (Concorde Affair ‘79) is a much better film.
In reality the plane would have broken up in the water
Airplane has ruined 😅 all airplane disaster movies for me.
I can only imagine how audiences reacted watching this trailer in theaters. Laughter? Confusion? Awe? All of the above?
Remember it was 1977. People could more readily suspend disbelief back then.
Everyone over react in every scene and you will be fine
No Way Up
LMAO. The plane has been pressurised. Yeah, that's not how that works.
The rich and the beautiful, yeah right 😅😂 wealthy yes, beautiful NO!
I was an Usher for this movie. Was disappointed with it when I watched it from the back of the theater. It was just a disaster movie under water.
Lol "no one is going to drown the plane is pressurized" blah ha ha ha ha, so this was a 747 made out of steel not aluminum and water proof to boot? Let's see, pressurization 11 to 14 psi. Bleed air operated. Water pressure at 200 feet( saturation diving depth) 88 psi, yeap bear can crush depth.
This was the stupid one. The first two were much better.
Absolute BS. A cheap BS movie. More talk than anything else.
The reason the plane was intact after crashing into the water was because they used to make planes with the same material they now make the black-boxes with..........cheap bastards zzzzzzzZING
Try explaining to people born in the 21st century how relevant TV was when this was made lol. They think you're either lying or just crazy lol
After Disney chips next on nbc
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