Airport

Matt Roush says...

Anticipating the summer blockbuster trend, 1970’s Oscar-winning airborne blockbuster leads off a monthlong series of classic disaster movies airing on Wednesdays. Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, and Jacqueline Bisset lead the cast of a high-flying nailbiter set during a paralyzing snowstorm, where a suicide bomber (Van Heflin) aboard a Boeing 707 creates more havoc. Screen and stage legend Helen Hayes won a supporting actress Oscar as an elderly passenger. Followed by more peril-in-the-sky movies: 1975’s The Hindenburg (10:30/9:30c), about the ill-fated dirigible; 1957’s Zero Hour! (12:45 am/11:45c), said to be the inspiration for the hit parody Airplane!; 1960’s The Crowded Sky (2:15 am/1:15c) and 1972’s Skyjacked (4:15 am/3:15c). Look for genre icons The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno, and Earthquake in weeks to come.

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