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Airport 1975 - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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The trailer gives away the fates of Urias (Roy Thinnes) and Major John Alexander (Ed Nelson).
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Dana Andrews had starred in two films that were groundbreaking (though campy) to the Airliner Disaster genre: The first, Zero Hour! (1957), which was the inspiration for Airplane! (1980), and he also played a pilot (albeit not a reluctant one) in The Crowded Sky (1960). In both movies, he landed the plane, and in this one, he crashed his private plane into the airliner that Karen Black and Charlton Heston have to attempt to land.
Airport 1975 - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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The mid-air transfer double for Charlton Heston was Joe Canutt, who doubled for Heston in Ben-Hur (1959).
Airport 1975 - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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Helen Reddy was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for this film for Best Newcomer - Female in 1975. She lost to Susan Flannery in another entry in the disaster genre, 'The Towering Inferno '
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This was Gloria Swanson's final film before her death on April 4, 1983 at the age of 84.
Airport 1975 - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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Gloria Swanson and Nancy Olsen appeared in Sunset Boulevard (1950).
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In this film, a private plane flown by Dana Andrews collided with the airliner piloted by Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. In The Crowded Sky (1960), Zimbalist was at the controls of a fighter jet that collided with an airliner piloted by Andrews.
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Irrelevantly, this is the first film since The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) (28 years) that Myrna Loy and Dana Andrews were in the same movie, even though they share no scenes, and someone thought that was noteworthy.
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Along with Airport '77 (1977) and The Concorde... Airport '79 (1979), this film was inducted into the RAZZIE Awards' Hall of Shame in 1983.
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In Murdock's (Charlton Heston's) office, there is a photo of a DC-10 taking off. The co-pilot flying the plane in the photo was David Slater, father of former Jet Blue flight attendant Steven Slater.
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In his book journal "The Actor's Life", Charlton Heston relates that he had begun working on this movie only fifteen hours after he had finished the final shot on Earthquake (1974).
Airport 1975 - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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The second of four movies in the "Airport" film series.
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Shooting overlapped somewhat with the tail end of production on Universal Pictures' Earthquake (1974), forcing Charlton Heston, George Kennedy, cinematographer Philip H. Lathrop, and producer Jennings Lang to juggle their schedules between the 2 films. This film was released first.
Airport 1975 - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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Charlton Heston (Alan Murdock) and Martha Scott (Sister Beatrice), appeared in Ben-Hur (1959). This was also Scott's first acting job in fifteen years.
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Producer William Frye fantasized about adding Greta Garbo to the cast, but she turned him down flat. She found it boring to play an aged actress, saying, "What could be worse than playing an old movie star?" Gloria Swanson then stepped in and played the role.
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This film is listed among The 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made in Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilson's book THE OFFICIAL RAZZIE MOVIE GUIDE.
Airport 1975 - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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Roy Thinnes would appear in another sky-high disaster movie the following year, The Hindenberg.
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Gloria Swanson wrote all her own dialogue. She also delivered the last line of the film. This was her first movie in twenty-two years. She explained, "I was holding out for a picture I could take my grandchildren to see, something exciting and contemporary without senseless violence."
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This was Clyde Kusatsu's film debut.
Airport 1975 - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts