The second of three sequels to Airport, the trashy picture that began the disaster movie cycle, in 1970, Jerry Jameson’s Airport 77 depicts a jet that sinks into the ocean, thus borrowing elements from the 1972 disaster flick, “The Poseidon Adventure.”
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Read Our Review of Airport (1970)
Like the other films in the series, this one offers cameo roles to good and old actors, such as Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, Brenda Vaccaro, George Kennedy, Olivia de Havilland, and even the honorable Jimmy Stewart.
Did it really deserve Oscar nominations in Art Direction and Costume Design (of passengers on a flight???)
Oscar Nominations: 2
Art Direction-Set Decoration: George C. Webb; Mickey S. Michaels
Costume Design: Edith Head
Oscar Award: None
Oscar Context:
George Lucas’s “Star Wars” won the Art Direction and Costume Design Oscars.
This was the last of Edith Head’s 35 Oscar nominations, winning 8 times.
Credits:
Directed by Jerry Jameson
Screenplay by Michael Scheff, David Spector, story by H. A. L. Craig, Charles Kuenstle, based on Airport, based on the novel by Arthur Hailey
Produced by William Frye
Starring
Jack Lemmon
Lee Grant
Brenda Vaccaro
Joseph Cotten
Olivia de Havilland
Darren McGavin
Christopher Lee
George Kennedy
James Stewart
Cinematography: Philip H. Lathrop, Rexford Metz
Edited by Robert Watts, J. Terry Williams
Music by John Cacavas
Color process Technicolor
Production and distribution by Universal Pictures
Release date: March 11, 1977
Running time: 113 minutes
Budget $6 million
Box office $91.1 million
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