The final film in the Airport series, The Concorde...Airport 79, is the goofiest of them all with another crazed cast mash up and a plot which features the Concorde jet evading cruise missiles and renegade jet fighters. It's certainly got a lot of silliness going on but at this point this sequel has so descended into some kind of absurd parody that it's really fun as a campy bad movie.
The casting is as nutty as ever. John Davidson as a sports reporter, Charo as Charo, Alain Delon (who had worked with Visconti and Jean Pierre Melville), George Kennedy as Patroni, soft core porn actress Sylvia Kristel, Ingmar Bergman actor Bibi Andersson is a hooker, Cicely Tyson, Jimmie Walker, and Martha Raye also show up.
David Lowell Rich who was essentially a television director was probably under no illusions about the quality of the script. The producer Jennings Lang was responsible for a lot of Universal move and TV junk and believe me if you were watching TV or going to the movies in the 1970's you saw his stuff.
The writer was Eric Roth and he certainly had a lot of highs and lows in his career, and yes, this is a low. The running time is 123 minutes.
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