This, the fourth of the Airports, continues the steady climb into thinner and thinner air. It concerns a billionaire arms manufacturer who launches repeated midair attacks on the Concorde airliner, en route from Washington to Moscow, in order to eliminate one of its passengers, his girlfriend, who is in possession of concrete evidence (invariably referred to as "the documents") that he had approved illegal weapons sales in Angola. A fair amount of fun, some of it intentional, some of it not, including the usual number of lines that stink to high heaven. "I haven't seen you since 1975 -- that crash landing at Salt Lake City," says the ubiquitous troubleshooter George Kennedy to newswoman Susan Blakely, in fond recollection of the climax of Airport '75. Blakely, incidentally, makes a much more believable TV newscaster than Jane Fonda made in The China Syndrome, in spite of her bachelorette pad being even more opulent than Fonda's. With Alain Delon, Sylvia Kristel, and Robert Wagner; directed by David Lowell Rich. (1979) — Duncan Shepherd
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