Airport (1970 film)

Airport is a 1970 American drama film starring Burt Lancaster and Dean Martin, directed and written by George Seaton, and based on Arthur Haileys 1968 novel of the same name. It originated the 1970s disaster film genre. It is also the first in the Airport film series.

Chicago is paralyzed by a snowstorm affecting Lincoln International Airport. A Trans Global Airlines TGA Boeing 707 flight crew misjudge their turn off of Runwayon to the taxiway, becoming stuck in the snow and closing Runway 29, forcing airport manager Mel Bakersfeld Burt Lancaster to work overtime. This causes tension with his wife, Cindy Dana Wynter. Divorce is looming as he nurtures a closer relationship with a coworker, TGA customer relations agent Tanya Livingston Jean Seberg. Bakersfelds brotherinlaw, serial adulterer Vernon Demarest Dean Martin, is a TGA captain scheduled to be the checkride captain for TGA to evaluate Captain Anson Harris Barry Nelson during TGAs Flightto Rome. Flightis aboard TGAs flagship service craft, a Boeing 707 known as The Golden Argosy. Although Demarest is married to Bakersfelds sister, Sarah Barbara Hale, he is secretly having an affair with Gwen Meighen Jacqueline Bisset, chief stewardess on Flight 2, who informs him before the flight that she is pregnant with his child.Bakersfeld borrows TWA mechanic Joe Patroni George Kennedy to assist with TGAs disabled plane. Bakersfeld and Livingston also deal with Mrs. Ada Quonsett Helen Hayes, an elderly lady who is a habitual stowaway. ........

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