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Airport (1970)

★ 6.5 · 443 ratings on TMDB

The #1 novel of the year - now a motion picture!

Airport poster★ 6.5

An airport manager tries to keep his terminals open during a snowstorm, while a suicide bomber plots to blow up a Boeing 707 airliner in flight.

DirectorGeorge Seaton
CastBarbara Hale, Burt Lancaster, Dana Wynter, Dean Martin, George Kennedy, Helen Hayes
GenresAction, Drama, Thriller
The emergence reading

Airport keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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