Airport

Airport is a 1970 American air disaster drama film, and the first in the Airport franchise.
== Plot ==
== Cast ==
* Burt Lancaster as Mel Bakersfeld, airport manager at Lincoln International Airport near Chicago
* Dean Martin as Vernon Demerest, checkride captain on Trans Global Airlines (TGA) Flight 2, Bakersfeld's brother-in-law
* Jean Seberg as Tanya Livingston, head customer relations agent for TGA, widow, Bakersfeld's future mistress
* Jacqueline Bisset as Gwen Meighen, chief stewardess on TGA Flight 2
* George Kennedy as Joe Patroni, chief mechanic for Trans World Airlines at Lincoln International, called on by Bakersfeld
* Helen Hayes as Ada Quonsett, an elderly stowaway
* Van Heflin as D. O. Guerrero, failed contractor, and bomber on TGA Flight 2 (Heflin's final theatrical film role)
* Maureen Stapleton as Inez Guerrero, wife of D.O. Guerrero
* Barry Nelson as Anson Harris, captain on TGA Flight 2
* Dana Wynter as Cindy, Bakersfeld's wife
* Lloyd Nolan as Harry Standish, head of the U.S. Customs Service at the airport
* Barbara Hale as Sarah, Bakersfeld's sister, Demerest's wife
* Gary Collins as Cy Jordan, flight engineer on TGA Flight 2
* John Findlater as Peter Coakley, a TGA gate agent, assigned to escort Mrs. Quonsett
* Jessie Royce Landis as Mrs. Mossman, an arriving passenger trying to sneak items through U.S. Customs (Landis' final theatrical film role)
* Larry Gates as Ackerman, head of the Lincoln Airport Board of Commissioners
* Peter Turgeon as Marcus Rathbone, a caustic and interfering passenger
* Whit Bissell as Mr. Davidson, passenger seated beside Mrs. Quonsett
Category:1970s films
Category:Disaster films
Category:American films
Category:Drama films
Category:1970 films
Category:Rated G