The first must-see film of the year.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

The cast is nearly as stellar, and this time we are treated to some good aerial photography, but the dialogue is very corny. That said, the story is rather a good one. Although Karen Black played several characters with angst or anxiety and innocent charm during that the 70s there's no reason to think she couldn't land the damn plane herself like the flight attendant does in the 1997 film, Turbulence.

Airport 1975 is one of those films that today seems to be simply a mistake. A 747, flying to Los Angeles, is having a routine flight when fog diverts it Salt Lake City. Before it makes it to Salt Lake, however, it has an unexpected and deadly rendezvous with a single- engine craft whose pilot has had a heart-attack. The crash puts a big hole in the plane and the co-pilot is sucked out. The pilot is badly injured, so stewardess Nancy (Karen Black) is forced to fly the plane. Charleton Heston and George Kennedy head the efforts first to talk her down and then to tether a pilot into the hole who can effect the landing.This movie is BAD. It is ridiculous both in premise and in execution. It and its sequel siblings (Airport 77 and Concorde) gave birth to one of the most insipid genres in the history of film, and provided so much material to Airplane that this movie became one of the funniest spoofs in movie history. Some scenes from Airplane have direct ancestors in 75--especially the scene where Sister Helen Reddy (that's right, she's a nun) sings a song to cheer up a girl needing a kidney transplant. This scene alone will make you ralf without any need of airsickness.And yet, the joy that this movie brings (and it does do this) is explicable in the movie's artistic context. 75 was a movie from the heart of the Disaster Decade, which saw such great lousy flicks as the original Airport (which actually is not that bad), Earthquake (which is), the Towering Inferno, the other Airport sequels, The Poseidon Adventure, and, my favorite, Roller-coaster. They all happened in the 70s, and when they did, they were all such trashy entertainment that we really enjoyed them. The secret to watching movies like these is to check your brain at the door and enjoy the camp. Eventually Airplane and the Naked Gun would obliterate this genre, but back in the day, it was not a bad way to kill an hour and half for four bucks.

Grown up in full slasher era and the disaster flicks this is one I still remember. And after seen it again (40 years later) I liked it even more then the first entry into this franchise. Karen Black (Nancy Pryor) do takes the lead here as an air hostess trying to rescue a 747. Again, but less here, as in the original Airport it's a big commercial for Boeing. But they don't say it that much as in the first one. Nevertheless, it's still worth picking up even as many doesn't like this flick because what we do see can't happen. It didn't bother me at all, it's funny to see Erik Estrada (Julio) coming from CHIPS and Linda Blair (Janice Abbott) in a small part. Charlton Heston (Alan Murdock) is the hero after all. And George Kennedy returns as Joe Patroni the man with technical advice. But not only the flick itself is worth seeing after all those years, again, the way they do fly back then. The commander smoking cigars in full air. Turnable chairs in first class, free booze even if you are drunk. The effects are a bit outdated, just see the impact with the small airplane as a POV from the cockpit. That doesn't work at all but hey, it's a flick from the seventies, full with coming stars and well known faces from that era.Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 2/5 Story 3/5 Comedy 0/5

This film is slightly better than I thought it would be, and I really enjoyed the many guest stars, which are too many to name, but I'll add a few who's appearances I liked in a bit. It almost reminded of a Love Boat episode with all the recognizable faces and the like, but it was campy fun anyway, especially the scenes with the entertaining George Kennedy, Jerry Stiller(Frank Costanza), Myrna Loy, Norman Fell, Erik Estrada, Conrad Janis, Gloria Swanson, Sid Caesar, Karen Black, and Charleton Heston to name quite a few. I was glad the crash didn't occur until about 45 minutes into the movie, so at least we got some character development, although not too much. I thought the performances of Black and Efram Zimbalist, Jr. stood out, and Kennedy added his usual quirkiness as Joe Patroni, who probably has the worst luck of anyone. A few other celebrities included Linda Blair(a few years after the Exorcist), Helen Reddy(guitar playing/singing nun), Susan Clark, Dana Andrews, quarterback Jim Plunkett, Bob Hastings, Larry Storch, and Sharon Gless. Heston's Alan does a decent job of guiding Nancy(Black) to fly the plane while on the radio with her, before he eventually transports from a helicopter to the plane itself to safely land it. During the scenes where one doomed pilot tries to land in the plane buts gets himself tangled, then killed, and when Alan safely enters the plane, watch Black stick her tongue out in a strange way while she's helping both men get inside; wasn't there anyway to edit these silly mannerisms? It's probably the only scenes I remembered from this film before I just watched it again. I would still recommend this for anyone to see many guest stars and a plot which doesn't require much thinking.