Airport '79 - The Concorde (1979)
 The
fourth helping of Airport adventure was subtitled The
Concorde, and inevitably the film suffered from the law of
diminishing returns.
This time the plot dealt with an international arms dealer
(Robert Wagner) who attempts to sabotage the Concorde on three
separate occasions in an effort to destroy some incriminating
evidence against him which is being carried by one of the
passengers (Susan Blakely).
The movie was made entirely to the tried and tested formula,
with two-dimensional characters taking second place to the
aircraft itself and the in-flight drama which threatens its
destruction.
George Kennedy (again!) played the pilot, and the large cast
under David Lowell Rich's equally formula direction included
Sylvia Kristel, Eddie Albert, Charo (The Love Plane?), Martha Raye,
Cicely Tyson and Ed Begley Jr.
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