Airport 39;77 Full Movie Youtube

[Trinidad Baltzell]

Noneof the sequels can approach the original Airport of course but of the three this is by far the best.

I don't know why Jack Lemmon talked this down. He certainly wasn't adverse to doing commercial films and had even stated in an interview I saw that while he didn't think much of Under the Yum Yum Tree (he's right it's stupid) and Good Neighbor Sam (inoffensive but cute)he was glad he made them since they made him number one at the box office the year of their release. Perhaps once he won the second Oscar for that snoozefest Save the Tiger he only wanted to do elevated projects, if that was so the films he did between it and Airport '77 were a ragged lot. He did much better post '77 with China Syndrome coming next and distinguished pictures for years after.

I quite agree that Lee Grant is everything in this movie consuming whole pieces of scenery whenever she pops into the frame! Even her glowering is over the top! Usually a fine and subtle actress in this film to paraphrase that old quote about Bette Davis "Nobody's as good as Lee when she's bad!"

It would have been interesting to see Joan in Olivia's role, anything to keep Trog from being her last film!, but since she died in 1977 she might have been too frail to make it through the rigorous filming, let's face it Livvy gets put through the mill and has lost her stylish appearance by the end. That picture you used of Crawford is a bit disturbing, she looks positively unwell and airbrushed almost beyond recognition!

Greer would have been a hardy fellow but truly this doesn't seem like her kind of thing at all. She steered clear of all the usual material for fading Ladies of the Silver Screen except for perhaps her one appearance on The Love Boat.

Owning the humorously named Airport Terminal pack of all four films I confess that only this and the original have gotten more than one view. I only watched the other two once to confirm my memory of how bad they were, it was correct.

Airport '75 was always my favorite installment. I saw the Airport '77 attraction at Universal Studios Hollywood. I was not tapped ot participate in the video shoot - rather I was an audience member who got to watch "how the movie was made". If I recall correctly, they spliced footage from the reshoot in with actual film footage for the replay. It was fun to watch.

I love this movie and have seen it 100 times. Other than the Maidie Norman and Brenda Vaccaro scenes, my heart still skips a little whenever Gil Gerard shows up. I've never been a big de Havilland fan having always preferred her sister, Joan Fontaine.

I wish I knew the ins and outs of that relationship!

Thanks for the stroll down memory lane!

I'm with Scooter. Airport 1975 has always been my personal favorite of the series (thanks to the late-great Karen Black, whom I've always loved)...but, I would be more than ecstatic to re-edit the movie so that it also includes the amazing Lee Grant and Brenda Vaccaro...and, while we're re-editing, we might as well throw in Charo from The Concorde: Airport 79(who had way too small a role if you ask me)...

As for dreamboat Gil Gerard, I still have fantasies of him appearing shirtless in Little House on the Prairie.

Oh, what fun, you've brought me back to my childhood. '77 was my very first Airport film, and it was a spectacle to see on the big screen. As a South Florida resident, I was always amused to see Jimmy Stewart's "Palm Beach" mansion which was actually Miami's famed Vizcaya (more than 60 miles south of Palm Beach County).

I did not remember until you reminded us of the 4-HOUR TV VERSION with all the added footage!

You nailed my favorite moment in the whole movie--Olivia deH sitting down to play that friendly game of poker.

Thanks for the memories as always.

Hello, loyal Underworld friends! Thank you so much for your comments about this post.

Joel, I recall Burt Lancaster putting "Airport" down (a blockbuster and Best Picture nominee) and Paul Newman saying that "that damned fire" was the real star of "The Towering Inferno," so perhaps Jack was just following a fashionable trend of not being too proud of blatantly commercial movies like this. (How beaming could one really be about something called "Airport '77," not that I wouldn't horsewhip my own mother to have been a stuntperson/extra passenger! LOL)

Scooter, I like "Airport 1975," warts and all, too. I used to think it was even more shoddy when all I had was my $5.99 grainy, pan 'n scan, Goodtimes VHS, but after seeing it cleaned-up and in its proper ratio, my affection for it grew. I am a sucker for anything all-star, though. (PS - Did you catch the links I posted to a couple of clips from the A77 attraction at Universal?)

NotFelix, I "knew" Olivia first through things like this and "The Swarm" and didn't "meet" Joan until much later when I finally saw "Rebecca." I like them both, though Liv's projects probably have a softer spot in my heart (and lord knows there are more of them!) I almost always enjoy Joan too, though, and love to hear her talk (especially candidly on old chatfests, etc...)

Knuckles, you owe me 45 minutes of my life!

Now, I'm confused!!!!...I just skimmed through the Gil Gerard episode of Little House on YouTube...and there was no shirtless scene!!!

I know the DVD versions that were released contained edited episodes...(I do not own them...this image of Gerard was a recollection from the past.)

Certainly, all these years, I can not have imagined this in my head. I believe he appeared shirtless on Buck Rogers(?)...but that was a later period.

If I was mistaken or created this image during some late-night fantasy of mine, my apologies...however, now I am on a quest to redeem myself.

On another note, I may be alone here, but Little House is never a waste of 45 minutes...The tears I shed over this show could fill a water-bed!!!...which might explain why I go by the name of Girlyskirt.

Poseidon, another side note on Olivia deHavilland--my own Oscar party group was obsessed with her in the late 1980s...do you remember an Oscar night where they had built an enormous and steep staircase for all the presenters to walk down as they entered? All the stars seemed to have trouble negotiating those stairs...one awkward entrance after another. A couple of the old-timers preferred to enter from the wings to avoid embarrassment. But Olivia!! She just sailed down those stairs with grace and ease and received a standing ovation, as much for the stair-trick as for her brilliant career. And then, at the microphone, her grand, melodic singsongy intonations made every movie title seem as important as Gone With the Wind: "HARRY and the Hendersons...HOPE and Glory...etc"

I love that this grande dame is alive and well and living in Paris...and still won't speak to her sister Joan.

So, was Gil Gerard shirtless in the Little House episode "The Handyman" or not???

I couldn't find anything on the Net, but I have just spoken to my Little House connection...and he, too, seems to remember Gil being shirtless in that episode...but he cannot swear on his life. However, somewhere in his countless boxes of VHS tapes he has the complete unedited episodes of Little House...If he is able to find it, he will watch it and let me know.

I would really hate to think that I have been living with fantasy creations in my head all these years...

In any case, To Be Continued...

Knuckles, I'm not sure... The youtube version doesn't have it but that also may be incomplete. And I was only ribbing you about the lost 45 minutes. God knows I waste so much time on on TV and movies it's a sin! I will never in my life forget working at a country club and having one of the female chefs - a ball-breaking, take-no-nonsense, tough girl - come into the kitchen furious. She had been at the laundromat and was doing her clothes or whatever and, according to her, "they had that FUCKING Little House on the Prairie on the TV." She was angry because as she was folding her stuff, she'd become so engrossed in it that she began to cry as Laura was befriending some old mountain hermit. She was mad because they show exposed her well-hidden heart to the people around her! LOL

I seem to recall that Oscar broadcast, Angelman, and wasn't she in a diaphanous chiffon gown that floated along with her? Ahhhh those were the days. (I may be confusing the dress with another, later appearance during which sister Joan was in the audience and they kept showing her!)

Oh Poseidon - many thanks for this tribute to '77! Like others, I saw it at an impressionable age - the soft spot in my heart remains for Ms. Vacarro - and I consider it to be second only to the original Airport.

Most of all, I want to thank you for alerting us to those YouTube clips of the Universal attraction that allowed tourists to participate in a mini version of the film:

"PS - Did you catch the links I posted to a couple of clips from the A77 attraction at Universal?"

I laughed myself silly. Did you happen to notice that in the second clip - the one in which arguably half the "cast" is under the age of 13 - that the final scene of the male and female heroes jumping into the drink includes a cameo of an inflatable shark that some mischievious on-looker thought to throw into the scene for added drama? Hysterical.

Thank you (and your devoted readers) for such great background, observations, and personal recollections...they're awesome.

God, yes, I saw the shark! The '70s and early-'80s were shark-obsessed times. I was just watching a "Matt Houston" about female lifeguards being eaten by sharks. It blow my mind the way they had park guests jumping into a pool of water in those clips! I just don't think that would "float" today.... though many park rides at other places get one very wet, it's not the same as this.

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