One of the things I bought with those innumerable Media Play coupons was a copy of the "Airport Terminal Pack," which is a collection of all four Airport movies, the first of course which is a pet of mine. For a "potboiler disaster film" it's well done, has good performances and actors, and has a good suspense factor. Even the score is good. The "Terminal Pack" had the letterboxed version, so of course I picked it up.

Airport 1975 I have not seen for years, probably since the rerun on network television. I remembered it being pretty bad, but I didn't think, compared to the swill that's coming out these days that it was that bad.

It's that bad. The stock characters are not only stock, but stupid, including a waste of the talented Myrna Loy as a little old lady who drinks boilermakers, Sid Caesar as the guy who becomes her companion on the flight, and Jerry Stiller, who sleeps through the entire disaster (at this point I'm not sure if "disaster" describes what happens to the plane or the movie itself). Linda Blair as the little girl who needs the kidney transplant is so boring she alone could put you to sleep. The leads are dull. Even the music is awful, what sounds like stock 1970s television background music. They could have used the soundtrack music from the old '70s Filmation cartoons and had something more appropriate!

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