AIRPORT: COMPLETE COLLECTION

An excellent upgrade of a classic series of 1970s disaster movies that triggered a whole genre. The first film starring Burt Lancaster is by far the best of the bunch, possibly because the basis of the story was already there from Arthur Haileys book Airport. Helen Hayes got an Oscar for this film so it must of been good! The series is all rather downhill and increasingly far fetched from there on though.The second film with Charlton Heston was much parodied in the spoof ‘Airplane’ movies and lacks the strong story and believability of the first. The third one with Jack Lemon underwater is rather stupid and technically impossible for a plane to do with survivors. The last one attempts to use Concorde, which was news at the time, to milk the franchise for another few bucks, but it’s one of the worst films ever made and beyond ridiculous, so save 90 mins of your life and throw that disc out as soon as you buy the set. George Kennedy is the only person who appears in all the films as the reoccurring character of Petroni. He got rather typecast in these type of disaster films in the 1970s but apart from the last one puts in a strong performance in all.

The High Flying Series Of Disaster Airport Movies Finally Get's The High Definition Treatment. The classic original That launched it all Airport sees life's ups and downs Through a busy Airport finally Having To Deal with a bomb Threat on one of Their airlines. Based on The best selling Novel With an all star cast including Dean Martin, Burt Lancaster, Jacqueline Bisset and making His first appearance in The series of Movies Hollywood Tough guy George Kennedy. Airport 75 Aptly filmed in 1975 sees a Boeing 747 struck in a mid air collision by a small charter plane leaving a large Hole in The flight Deck crew badly injured and up To The stewardess To land The plane. Plucky Karen Black plays The unwilling stewardess Though Help is on hand from Hollywood legend Charlton Heston. Heston's Not on board The plane but They manage To get Him into The crippled cockpit via a mid air rescue well we are at The movies. Once again an all star cast Takes flight including Gloria Swanson, Linda Blair, and look out for TVs Invaders Roy Thinnis. while offering plenty of Action in The air Airport 75 olso went for laughs Delivering Dead pan one liners while still playing it straight you can see why This movie was spoofed in The latter Airplane comedy films. Up Next Airport 77 and for my money The best in The series once again The unlucky 747 is High jacked in mid flight for its cargo of valuable paintings The plane it's an off shore oil rig and plunges into The murky Depths of The sea with The rest of The movie Detailing The rescue of The survivors and raising The plane. Jack Lemmon, James Stewart. Christopher Lee. and The ever reliable George Kennedy are all on Hand for This one. The producers Dropped The Dead pan liners That perhaps faulted The previous movie and Delivered a solid Action Thriller. The Super Sonic Concorde was all The current Trend back in 1979 and Universal pictures used The Concorde as centre stage for Their final Airport Disaster movie This one sees George Kennedy finally at The controls Dodging air missiles in mid flight and for The Time This was made The sight of The Concorde Dodging missiles The special effects were very well Done. All of The movies in The collection Deliver a very Good High Definition Transfer better Than any past DVD releases. in The way of extras all feature The Trailers for The movies it's a five star collection. However My own experience with The seller I Had To pay an extra £13.00 customs charge for This collection To add further insult To injury The casing Housing four Discs was badly cracked lucky I add spare cases That Take Three Discs I was able To Transfer Them all into one of Them and They Don't look Too bad but really. If you plan To buy This collection I would advise Trying To get it Through a Different seller.

This set of Aeroplane disasters is just perfect for those of us into disaster movies even if some of the acting is a touch ropy.

Love a good " cheesy " disaster film. Cant wait.

Very good copy to blu ray a

Great movies and fast delivery

Finally the complete set in blu ray.

Great stuff worth the wait cheers!!