The #1 novel of the year - now a motion picture!
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.
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Classical in form, earnest, resolved and unpretentious.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
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“Is Burt Lancaster the best thing in Airport?”
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Cast
- Burt LancasterMel Bakersfeld
- Dana WynterCindy Bakersfeld
- Dean MartinVernon Demerest
- Barbara HaleSarah Demerest
- Jean SebergTanya Livingston
- Jacqueline BissetGwen Meighen
- George KennedyJoe Patroni
- Jodean LawrenceMarie Patroni
- Helen HayesAda Quonsett
- John FindlaterPeter Coakley
Crew
- George SeatonDirector
- George SeatonScreenplay
- Arthur HaileyNovel
- Ernest LaszloDirector of Photography
- Alfred NewmanOriginal Music Composer
- Stuart GilmoreEditor
- Ross HunterProducer
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