History Film / Airport

* AntagonistOffspring: Philip Steven's daughter.

* AntagonistOffSpring: Philip Steven's daughter.

* Tearjerker: [[spoiler:The death of Dorothy, right before the others are rescued.]]

* TheChessmaster: Mrs. Quansett, professional airplane stowaway, having stolen hundreds of rides and has an arsenal of tricks. She uses her advanced age to get away with a number of schemes, including faking illness to get rid of the man who is supposed to babysit her (and keep her from stowing away on another plane) and defeating Mrs. Livingston's attempt to keep her from doing so. The book makes this explicit: both Mrs. Quansett and Mrs. Livingston independently realize the two of them are battling to see who can win. The result: age and craftiness defeat youth and inexperience.

Helen Hayes' performance as Ada Quonsett won her an Oscar, and the movie was enough of a hit to effectively serve as the TropeCodifier for the disaster movie genre.

''Airport'' spawned three sequels: ''Airport 1975'', ''Airport 1977'', and ''Airport '79'' (in a Concorde!). A TV-movie and miniseries was also created in the aftermath of ''Airport''; ''SanFranciscoInternationalAirport''. (The miniseries simply dropped the word Airport). Today, it's probably best known for having inspired ''Film/{{Airplane}}'', TheParody of '70s disaster movies.

'''''Airport''''' is the first of a series of 1970s {{Disaster Movie}}s centering around aircraft in distress. Released in 1970 and based on the novel of the same name by Arthur Hailey, it can be considered a very close and faithful adaptation; the sequels, however, have nothing to do with an original book.

'''''Airport''''' is the first of a series of 1970s {{Disaster Movie}}s centering around aircraft in distress. The first, award-winning movie became the TropeCodifier for the genre. Based on the novel of the same name by Arthur Hailey, it can be considered a very close and faithful adaptation; the sequels, however, have nothing to do with an original book.

Helen Hayes' performance as Ada Quonsett won her an Oscar, and the movie was very well received in general.

'''''Airport''''' is the first of a 1970s series of films centering around aircraft in distress. The first, award-winning movie became the TropeCodifier for the DisasterMovie genre. Based on the novel of the same name by Arthur Hailey, it can be considered a very close and faithful adaptation; the sequels, however, have nothing to do with an original book.

''Airport'' is the first of a 1970s series of disaster movies centering around aircraft in distress. The first, award-winning movie became the TropeCodifier for the DisasterMovie genre. Based on the novel of the same name by Arthur Hailey, it can be considered a very close and faithful adaptation; the sequels, however, have nothing to do with an original book.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: While it stays with the plane theme, this film takes the action out of the airport (and skies, for the most part) and sets it in the underwater depths of the Bermuda Triangle.

* [[spoiler:KilledOffScreen: D.O. Guerrero, when he detonates his bomb in the lavatory, tearing a hole in the wall and sucking him into oblivion.]]

* AllStarCast: ''Heck yeah.''

* AllStarCast: Even more so than the original. Aside from George Kennedy's reappearance as Patroni, there's Charlton Heston, Karen Black, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Susan Clark, Helen Reddy, Linda Blair, Sid Caesar... the list just keeps on going.

* AllStarCast: JamesStewart, to begin with. Also Jack Lemmon, Brenda Vaccaro, Lee Grant, ChristopherLee...

* AllStarCast: Although the cast mostly consists of stars who were more famous for their TV work.

* FranchiseKiller: Almost everybody sees it as this, and it was.

** Bibi Andersson as the prostitute that Patroni hooks up with in Paris.

The movie begins with the day-to-day concerns and life issues of various crew and patrons of Chicago's fictional Lincoln International Airport ([[CaliforniaDoubling actually, a redressed Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport]]). The central drama to this movie seems to be marital problems; first in the guise of difficulties between [[TheHero airport manager]] Mel Bakersfield (Creator/BurtLancaster) and his wife. Mel has a rivalry with his brother-in-law, [[DirtyOldMan Vernon Demerest]] (DeanMartin) over who's right about airport operations. Demerest also happens to be doing the deed with one of his flight attendants, Gwen Meighen (JacquelineBisset). However, Mel is fortunately not alone; he does have help from his friend, Trans-Global Airlines Supervisor of Passenger Relations Tanya Livingston (Jean Seberg) and TWA Chief of Maintenance Joe Patroni (George Kennedy) in the numerous challenges... usual and unusual.

The movie begins with the day-to-day concerns and life issues of various crew and patrons of Chicago's fictional Lincoln International Airport ([[CaliforniaDoubling actually, a redressed Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport]]). The central drama to this movie seems to be marital problems; first in the guise of difficulties between [[TheHero airport manager]] Mel Bakersfield (Creator/BurtLancaster) and his wife. Mel has a rivalry with his brother-in-law, [[DirtyOldMan Vernon Demerest]] (DeanMartin) over who's right about airport operations. Demerest also happens to be doing the deed with one of his flight attendants, Gwen Meighen (JacquelineBisset). However, Mel is fortunately not alone; he does have help from his friend, Trans-Global Airlines Supervisor of Passenger Relations Tanya Livingston (Jean Seberg) and TWA Chief of Maintenance Joe Patroni (George Kennedy) in the numerous challenges...usual and unusual.

!!Tropes present in ''Airport'' include:

* AllStarCast
* AnyoneCanDie: Subverted in that there's only a single death.

* UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}}

* JerkAss: That one [[UnsatisfiableCustomer whiny, surly bald passenger]] (played by Steven Turgeon). Even a priest felt the need to hit him!

* SecretRelationship

* ''View from the Top'': George Kennedy makes a short [[TheCameo cameo]] as a flight passenger in the film, undoubtedly an ActorAllusion to this franchise.

The movie begins with the day-to-day concerns and life issues of various crew and patrons of Chicago's fictional Lincoln International Airport ([[CaliforniaDoubling actually, a redressed Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport]]). The central drama to this movie seems to be marital problems; first in the guise of difficulties between [[TheHero airport manager]] Mel Bakersfield (BurtLancaster) and his wife. Mel has a rivalry with his brother-in-law, [[DirtyOldMan Vernon Demerest]] (DeanMartin) over who's right about airport operations. Demerest also happens to be doing the deed with one of his flight attendants, Gwen Meighen (JacquelineBisset). However, Mel is fortunately not alone; he does have help from his friend, Trans-Global Airlines Supervisor of Passenger Relations Tanya Livingston (Jean Seberg) and TWA Chief of Maintenance Joe Patroni (George Kennedy) in the numerous challenges...usual and unusual.

!!Tropes present in ''{{Airport}}'' include:

* TheWindyCity

''Airport'' is the first of a 1970s series of disaster movies centering around aircraft in distress. The first, award-winning movie became the TropeCodifier for the DisasterMovie genre. Based on the novel of the same name by Arthur Hailey, and can be considered a very close and faithful adaptation the sequels, however, have nothing to do with an original book.

''Airport'' spawned three sequels: ''Airport 1975'', ''Airport 1977'', and ''Airport '79'' (in a Concorde!). A TV-movie and miniseries was also created in the aftermath of Airport; SanFranciscoInternationalAirport. (The miniseries simply dropped the word Airport).

''Airport'' begins with the day-to-day concerns and life issues of various crew and patrons of Chicago's fictional Lincoln International Airport ([[CaliforniaDoubling actually, a redressed Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport]]). The central drama to this movie seems to be marital problems; first in the guise of difficulties between [[TheHero airport manager]] Mel Bakersfield (BurtLancaster) and his wife. Mel has a rivalry with his brother-in-law, [[DirtyOldMan Vernon Demerest]] (DeanMartin) over who's right about airport operations. Demerest also happens to be doing the deed with one of his flight attendants, Gwen Meighen (JacquelineBisset). However, Mel is fortunately not alone; he does have help from his friend, Trans-Global Airlines Supervisor of Passenger Relations Tanya Livingston (Jean Seberg) and TWA Chief of Maintenance Joe Patroni (George Kennedy) in the numerous challenges...usual and unusual.

'''''Airport''''' is the first of a 1970s series of disaster movies centering around aircraft in distress. The first, award-winning movie became the TropeCodifier for the DisasterMovie genre. Based on the novel of the same name by Arthur Hailey, and can be considered a very close and faithful adaptation the sequels, however, have nothing to do with an original book.

!!Plot:

''Airport'' begins with the day-to-day concerns and life issues of various crew and patrons of Chicago's fictional Lincoln International Airport ([[CaliforniaDoubling actually, a redressed Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport]]). The central drama to this movie seems to be marital problems; first in the guise of difficulties between [[TheHero airport manager]] Mel Bakersfield (Burt Lancaster) and his wife. Mel has a rivalry with his brother-in-law, [[DirtyOldMan Vernon Demerest]] (Dean Martin) over who's right about airport operations. Demerest also happens to be doing the deed with one of his flight attendants, Gwen Meighen (Jacqueline Bisset). However, Mel is fortunately not alone; he does have help from his friend, Trans-Global Airlines Supervisor of Passenger Relations Tanya Livingston (Jean Seberg) and TWA Chief of Maintenance Joe Patroni (George Kennedy) in the numerous challenges...usual and unusual.