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The Concorde
... Airport '79 (1979)  
Preceeded by:
Airport '77 (1977)
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Director:
David Lowell Rich |
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COUNTRY
USA |
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Genre
Disaster |
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NORWEGIAN
TITLE
Airport '80: Concorde |
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RUNNING
TIME
113
minutes |
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Producer:
Jennings Lang |
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Screenwriter (based on a story by Jennings Lang):
Eric Roth |
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Cast includes:
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ACTOR/ACTRESS |
RATING |
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Capt. Paul Metrand |
Alain Delon |
 ½ |
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Maggie Whelan |
Susan Blakely |
½ |
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Kevin Harrison |
Robert Wagner |
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Isabelle |
Sylvia Kristel |
- |
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Capt. Joseph "Joe" Patroni |
George Kennedy |
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Eli Sands |
Eddie Albert |
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| Francine |
Bibi Andersson |
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| Margarita |
Charo |
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| Henri |
Pierre Jalbert |
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| Robert Palmer |
John Davidson |
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Alicia Rogov |
Andrea
Marcovicci |
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Loretta |
Martha Raye |
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Elaine |
Cicely Tyson |
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Boise |
Jimmie Walker |
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Peter O'Neill |
David Warner |
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Nelli |
Mercedes
McCambridge |
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Review
The visual effects and action
choreography is campy in this fourth and final installment in the
Airport
series, but the plot is fairly refreshing and engaging with its European
style and overdrawn antics, making The Concorde quite an
entertaining watch. It's a picture that comes off as simultaneously
lavish and cheap, clever and moronic, inventive and self-destructive.
Alain Delon plays the pilot with a drowsy disinterest. But he's still
his usual sexy self, of course. Written by a young Eric Roth (Forrest
Gump,
Benjamin Button), scored by Lalo
Schifrin.
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