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Released
1974 · FILM

Airport 1975

A flight attendant must take the controls of a crippled jet after a midair collision, relying on the guidance of her pilot boyfriend on the ground as chaos erupts among the passengers.

Something hit us... The crew is dead... Help us, please, please help us!

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Runtime
107 min
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Synopsis

When a midair collision incapacitates the pilots of a flight en route to Los Angeles, stewardess Nancy Pryor is compelled to take control of the aircraft. From the ground, her boyfriend Alan Murdock, a retired test pilot, attempts to guide her through the process of flying and landing the 747. The situation grows more tense as anxious passengers, including a loud nun and an irritable man, contribute to the already difficult atmosphere.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by J Terry WilliamsShot by Philip H LathropScored by John Cacavas

Box Office

1974 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 34× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$103.0M

Budget$3.0M
Worldwide gross$103.0M
break-even (2.5×)

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Also known as

  • Airport '75 - Giganten am Himmelde
  • Airport 2 - Giganten am Himmelde
  • Giganten am Himmelde
  • Aeropuerto 75es
  • 747 en périlfr
  • Airport '75it

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