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Airport

1970 · Movie · 137 min

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Scores

  • Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer72%as of 2026-01-11
  • Rotten Tomatoes average6.2/10as of 2021-10-05
  • Metacritic42/100as of 2025-10-17

What it is

Airport is a 1970 American disaster film written and directed by George Seaton, and distributed by Universal Pictures. Based on Arthur Hailey's 1968 novel, it originated the 1970s disaster film genre, and is the first of four films in the Airport film series.

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Genres
Action
Original language
English

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