This movie begins in the realm of the ridiculous (the airborne pleasure palace borrows several ideas in first-class travel accommodations from The Big Bus, and the audience is expected to go ga-ga over them), and it follows a course even sillier than the forerunners in the Airport series (the attempted heist of a cargo of Old Master oil paintings precipitates a splashdown in the dreaded Bermuda Triangle). However, director Jerry Jameson and photographer Philip Lathrop seem exceptionally attuned to the opportunities for visual oddities (the airship skipping like a speedboat across the Atlantic surface, the sunken plane hoisted from the ocean floor by yellow balloons, etc.), and the swift, sure rescue operation is a doubtless well-deserved clap on the back of the U.S. Navy (a postscript affirms, in essence, that the events of the movie are preposterous, but if they ever were to come true the Navy could handle the problem just the same). Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, Darren McGavin, Brenda Vaccaro, and James Stewart. (1977) — Duncan Shepherd
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