Airport, '75, '77 and '79 will they be all released as one package? (1 Viewer)

andySu · Nov 12, 2014

Will there be any chance the Airport disaster films all be released as package like the DVD terminal package with new remasters of Airport and '75, '77 and '79 the concord, with mono original and re-mix Dolby TrueHD 5.1 on all for that panic attack effect and possibly extras for each film.

Brian McP · Nov 12, 2014

We can only hope Andy -- "Airport '77", easily the best of the three sequels, with Jack Lemmon in the only movie of his career, as an action star, and doing it beautifully.

andySu · Nov 12, 2014

Brian, Watched Airport '77 earlier in evening then '75.

First Airport film I saw was with my dad '77 and then saw '79 the Concorde on my own at same cinema ABC and screen 1. I enjoyed '77 a lot when I saw and remember making a lego 747 and crashing it into water.

They sure don't make them no more. What will they call it today? Airport '15 or Airport '2015.

DP 70 · Nov 13, 2014

A 70mm print of Airport 75 was checked at the Plaza cinema in London on release but they used a 35mm mono on release.So maybe somewhere they is a stereo track for Airport 75?

David Sal · Nov 13, 2014

They are available in HD on vudu. I would love a bluray Terminal Pack.

Simon Lewis · Nov 13, 2014

I'm definitely keen to have blu-rays of Airport 75 and 77, both films are great fun in my opinion. Airport 79 I thought was really poor.

I'd also like to see some other Universal disaster movies on blu :-

The Hindenburg
Rollercoaster
Two Minute Warning
Gray Lady Down

Erik_H · May 13, 2015

According to Amazon's French site, restored versions of the "Airport" sequels will be released on July 8 on Blu-Ray.

And according to Amazon's German site, "The Hindenburg" will be released on Blu-Ray on June 11.

This doesn't necessarily mean that US versions are forthcoming. Some other Universal titles from that period, including "Anne of the Thousand Days" and "The Front Page," were released in Europe within the last few years and have yet to be released in the US.

youworkmen · May 13, 2015

Are they better than the original yawnfest?

Must have been a very weak year for the original to feature in the Oscars.

Only got round to watching it last Xmas for the first time ever. Supposedly the film to start the disaster movie cycle. At least things happen in The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno.

I liked the idea of an airport disaster movie . Do the sequels deliver where the original didn't?

Jack P · May 13, 2015

I don't consider the original a "yawnfest". It was a film more in the tradition of older movies like "The High And The Mighty" then foreshadowing the later disaster films and IMO is better understood on those terms. A lot more character drama too that works because of some fine acting.

'75 and '77 do have a lot of action but '75 is also pretty cringing in terms of its dialogue/characters (they also go for a purposeful injoke reversal of "The Crowded Sky". You'll know exactly what I mean if you know what happens in that film) and its no wonder that a lot of '75 was subsequently parodied in "Airplane". '77 is better but only if you see its expanded TV cut. The theatrical cut I've found to be choppy and badly paced (of course I grew up only on the TV cut for years on NBC airings).

There is nothing that can be said about '79 except things that are unprintable.

Michael Elliott · May 13, 2015

I find the original to be a complete bore but I enjoy the next two (the fourth film is just downright awful). I watched '77 a few weeks back so I'd like to see the television version, which I believe there was one of. The same with TWO MINUTE WARNING. I watched SKYJACKED the other day and it was pretty funny to see it in between the first two AIRPORT movies and the connections it had with both.

SilverWook · May 13, 2015

Footage of the old Universal Studios Tour attraction, where guests got to be inserted into a very short version of Airport '77, would make a cool extra.

And lest we forget, Airport '77 was the screen debut of a certain optical disc format.

SilverWook · May 13, 2015

I remember reading in Starlog that Universal was planning a fifth film, (and that UFO's figured in the plot) but I presume the success of Airplane! killed that idea!

Rob_Ray · May 13, 2015

The original AIRPORT was not a disaster movie as much as it was a GRAND HOTEL-styled All Star soap opera where various characters are thrown together for a night of melodramatic tension, where a potential disaster came as the story's climax. As such, as clunky as it is, it's more slickly polished and ultimately more successful than any of the cheesy followups, which were standard 70s disaster flicks, '77 being by far the best of them. AIRPORT was a big hit in 1970 because it was one of the few films aimed at establishment audiences wanting old-fashioned entertainment in a year filled with the likes of more youthful-oriented movies like MASH. The critics were baffled when the box-office receipts started pouring in, but I remember being carried off to the theatre by my parents and grandparents and seeing long lines of other older folks looking for the type of mindless entertainment that had become passe.

Thomas T · May 13, 2015

youworkmen said:
Are they better than the original yawnfest?

I liked the idea of an airport disaster movie . Do the sequels deliver where the original didn't?

I think people are forgetting that Airport was based on a massive best selling novel by Arthur Hailey that spent 30 weeks in the no. 1 spot on the New York Times best sellers list. It was a compelling page turner and the film is a faithful representation of the book. Everyone who read the book was dying to see the movie as well as people who hadn't read it but heard about it. I saw it at a jam packed 11:00 Saturday matinee opening weekend and the film became the highest grossing movie of 1970. It wasn't a "disaster" book but somehow the film is deemed a "disaster" movie despite it being a character driven melodrama with a bit of "punch" at the very end so I can see how some people seeing it for the first time would be disappointed in the lack of action. I enjoy the sequels and yes while they contain more action, they are also more ludicrous and unrealistic.

This long ramble is my way of saying the original film is not a yawnfest. I suspect you were simply expecting something else, more along the lines of Poseidon Adventure and Towering Inferno which are "disaster" films in that the disasters occur at the beginning of the film and its characters deal with the aftermath of the disaster. That is not the case with Airport.

trajan · May 13, 2015

Thomas T said:
I think people are forgetting that Airport was based on a massive best selling novel by Arthur Hailey that spent 30 weeks in the no. 1 spot on the New York Times best sellers list. It was a compelling page turner and the film is a faithful representation of the book. Everyone who read the book was dying to see the movie as well as people who hadn't read it but heard about it. I saw it at a jam packed 11:00 Saturday matinee opening weekend and the film became the highest grossing movie of 1970. It wasn't a "disaster" book but somehow the film is deemed a "disaster" movie despite it being a character driven melodrama with a bit of "punch" at the very end so I can see how some people seeing it for the first time would be disappointed in the lack of action. I enjoy the sequels and yes while they contain more action, they are also more ludicrous and unrealistic.

This long ramble is my way of saying the original film is not a yawnfest. I suspect you were simply expecting something else, more along the lines of Poseidon Adventure and Towering Inferno which are "disaster" films in that the disasters occur at the beginning of the film and its characters deal with the aftermath of the disaster. That is not the case with Airport.

Saw this in TODD-AO at Radio City Music Hall. Very impressive. We need a bluray transfer from TODD-AO elements.

Rick Thompson · May 13, 2015

The original Airport was made by one of the great craftsmen of the era, George Seaton, who also gave us, among others, The Country Girl, The Pleasure of His Company, the nifty war thriller 36 Hours and the original (still the best) Miracle on 34th Street. He won two screenplay Oscars and was nominated three other times.

I was 22 when Airport came out, and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Rob_Ray · May 13, 2015

Thomas T said:
I think people are forgetting that Airport was based on a massive best selling novel by Arthur Hailey that spent 30 weeks in the no. 1 spot on the New York Times best sellers list. It was a compelling page turner and the film is a faithful representation of the book. Everyone who read the book was dying to see the movie as well as people who hadn't read it but heard about it. I saw it at a jam packed 11:00 Saturday matinee opening weekend and the film became the highest grossing movie of 1970. It wasn't a "disaster" book but somehow the film is deemed a "disaster" movie despite it being a character driven melodrama with a bit of "punch" at the very end so I can see how some people seeing it for the first time would be disappointed in the lack of action. I enjoy the sequels and yes while they contain more action, they are also more ludicrous and unrealistic.

This long ramble is my way of saying the original film is not a yawnfest. I suspect you were simply expecting something else, more along the lines of Poseidon Adventure and Towering Inferno which are "disaster" films in that the disasters occur at the beginning of the film and its characters deal with the aftermath of the disaster. That is not the case with Airport.

Exactly right. I had just finished reading the novel when the movie came out and was very impressed with how faithful the filmmakers were to Hailey's story. Especially after seeing the freely adapted version of Hailey's HOTEL a couple of years earlier.

JohnMor · May 13, 2015

I love Airport but I can't stomach the sequels. But I can understand people today being confused or disappointed when they see it and think they're going to see a disaster movie instead of an all-star melodrama, a la Grand Hotel. It's hyped and included in with a group of films it really doesn't have that much in common with. And who can resist Helen Hayes as Ada Quonsett? "Oh my dear, I couldn't possibly afford a ticket!"

FrancisP · May 13, 2015

I would love to see them put the television versions on the blu-ray discs.

Darby67 · May 14, 2015

I bought the Terminal Pack on DVD because I wanted to own the entire franchise and have enjoyed going back and watching them all. I have to join the chorus and concur that the original is the best of the bunch and '77 was the best of the three sequels. Although watching Jimmy Walker smoke a joint in the Concorde bathroom and the plane get attacked by missiles multiple times does have its own unique charms

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