"Airport", based on the best selling novel by Arthur Hailey is an Academy Award nominated disaster film that spawned three sequels: Airport '75, Airport '77, and the campy Airport '79 (The Concorde).

The fall of 1974 was a grand time for lovers of enormous movie spectacles featuring all-star casts and disasters — either natural or man-made. A half-century ago today, “Airport 1975” starring ...