Airport '77 is a 1977 disaster film and second sequel in the Airport franchise. The film stars a number of veteran actors, including Jack Lemmon, James Stewart, Joseph Cotten, Christopher Lee and Olivia de Havilland. Like its predecessors, Airport '77 was a box office hit earning $30 million, making the film the 18th highest-grossing picture of 1977. It was nominated for two Academy Awards and was directed by Jerry Jameson. A privately owned luxury Boeing 747-100, Stevens' Flight 23 complete with piano bar, office, and bedroom, is used to ferry invited guests to an estate owned by wealthy... philanthropist Philip Stevens . Valuable artwork of the Stevens' private collection is also on board the jetliner, to be eventually displayed in his new museum. Such a collection motivates a group of thieves led by co-pilot Bob Chambers to hijack the aircraft in the hopes of landing it on an abandoned airfield on St. George Island. Once Captain Don Gallagher leaves the cockpit and is knocked unconscious, the hijacker's plans go into motion. A sleeping gas is released into the cabin and the passengers lose consciousness.
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| Release date: | March 11, 1977 |
| Directed by: | Jerry Jameson, Jerry Jameson |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 113 Minutes |
| Producer: | William P. Frye, Jennings Lang |
| Editor: | J. Terry Williams, Robert Watts |
| Music by: | John Cacavas, Tom Sullivan, Tom Sullivan |
| Cinematography: | Philip H. Lathrop, Rexford Metz |
| Screenplay by: | Charles Kuenstle, Michael Scheff, David Spector |
| Genre: | Disaster, Thriller, Action |