Airport 1975

Airport 1975 (also known as Airport '75) is a 1974 air disaster film and the first sequel to the successful 1970 film Airport. Airport 1975 is directed by Jack Smight, produced by William Frye and Jennings Lang and has a screenplay by Don Ingalls.^[3] The film stars Charlton Heston, Karen Black and George Kennedy.^[4]

The plot concerns the dramatic events aboard an airborne Boeing 747 when a small aircraft crashes into thecockpit causing the fatalities of senior crew and the blinding of the pilot with no one aboard qualified to take the controls.^[5] Airport 1975 is the seventh highest grossing movie of 1974 at the U.S.A. and Canada box office.

Airport 1975 was a massive commercial success, with a budget of $3 million^[1] the film made over $47 million^[2] at the box office, making it the seventh highest-grossing film of 1974 and the year's third highest-grossing disaster film, behind The Towering Inferno and Earthquake.

Critical reception was mainly unfavourable with The New Yorker magazine's film critic Pauline Kael calling the picture "cut-rate swill", "produced on a TV-movie budget by mercenary businessmen". Kael also thought the audio problems gave Karen Black's voice a metallic sound that was grating and that the main character, a stewardess, was constantly being patronized by men.^[7]

Airport 1975 was included in the book The Fifty Worst Films of All Time published in 1978. The film is listed in Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilson's book The Official Razzie Movie Guide as one of The 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made.^[8]