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The Concorde...Airport '79 is a 1979 American disaster film. The film was the fourth and last installment of the Airport series and is widely considered the poorest effort of the series. Upon the film's release, it was universally derided by critics. Despite poor reviews, the film made $13 million at the box office.

Some, such as All Movie Guide's Bruce Eder have interpreted the film as a self-parody, due to the film's outrageous premise, situations, and casting. In The Concorde: Airport '79, the airplane flips upside down, among other aerial acrobatics, which would destroy such an aircraft. Also notable is the casting of Mercedes McCambridge as a Russian Olympics coach. For a period in the 1950s, McCambridge was blacklisted during the Red Scare in America.

Many of the flying sequences in the movie feature the Concorde F-BTSC. Coincidentally this aircraft, operating as Air France Flight 4590, crashed into a hotel after take-off from Paris Charles de Gaulle International Airport on July 25th 2000 killing all on board, and four in the hotel.

Plot

Joe Patroni (George Kennedy) co-pilots the inaugural flight of the first Concorde supersonic jetliner owned by an American airline with Paul Metrand (Alain Delon). Unfortunately, anti-Concorde protests are nothing compared to the threats to this plane: a reporter (Susan Blakely) is on board, and she has hold of documents that indict her boyfriend (Robert Wagner), an arms manufacturer, for illegal weapons sales to communist countries during the Cold War. He is determined to destroy the Concorde if that's what it will take to silence the woman.

Cast

Alain Delon
as Capt. Paul Metrand
Susan Blakely
as Maggie Whelan
Robert Wagner
as Kevin Harrison
Sylvia Kristel
as Isabelle
George Kennedy
as Capt. Joe Patroni
Eddie Albert
as Eli Sands
Bibi Andersson
as Francine
Charo as Margarita
John Davidson
as Robert Palmer
Andrea Marcovicci
as Alicia Rogov
Martha Raye
as Loretta
Cicely Tyson
as Elaine
Jimmie Walker
as Boise
David Warner
as Peter O'Neill
Mercedes McCambridge
as Nelli
Monica Lewis
as Gretchen

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