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FILM DETAILS

Certificate PG

Cast Burt Lancaster Dean Martin Jean Seberg Jaquelline Bisset George Kennedy

Directors George Seaton

Screenwriters George Seaton

Running Time 137 minutes

Airport
Still putting the 'run!' into runway

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Plot
As snow incapacitates Lincoln International Airport, manager Mel Bakersfield has to contend not only with frozen runways, but with a seething wife and a girlfriend who may move to San Francisco. But that’s nothing to the problems facing his brother-in-law pilot Vern Demerest, he’s got a stowaway, a madman with a bomb, a pregnant girlfriend and nowhere to land.

Verdict
Long, strong and full of aging stars.


Reviewed by Ian Nathan

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