Airport 1975

Airport 1975
Theatrical release poster by George Akimoto[1]
Directed by	Jack Smight
Written by	Don Ingalls
Based on	Airport by Arthur Hailey
Produced by	William Frye
Starring	Charlton Heston Karen Black George Kennedy Gloria Swanson Efrem Zimbalist Jr. Susan Clark Sid Caesar Linda Blair Dana Andrews Roy Thinnes Nancy Olson Ed Nelson Myrna Loy Augusta Summerland Helen Reddy Erik Estrada
Cinematography	Philip H. Lathrop
Edited by	J. Terry Williams
Music by	John Cacavas
Color process	Technicolor
Production company	Universal Pictures
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	October 18, 1974 (1974-10-18)
Running time	106 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$3 million[2]
Box office	$103 million

Airport 1975 (also known as Airport '75) is a 1974 American air disaster film and the first sequel to the successful 1970 film Airport. It was directed by Jack Smight, produced by William Frye, executive produced by Jennings Lang, and written by Don Ingalls.^[3] The film stars Charlton Heston, Karen Black, George Kennedy and Gloria Swanson – as a fictionalized version of herself – in her final film role.^[4]

The plot concerns the dramatic events aboard an airborne Boeing 747 when a small aircraft crashes into the cockpit, causing the fatalities of senior crew and the blinding of the pilot, leaving no one aboard qualified to take the controls. Airport 1975 was the seventh highest-grossing movie of 1974 at the US and Canada box office.