![]() ![]() Demerest also happens to be doing the deed with one of his flight attendants, Gwen Meighen ( Jacqueline Bisset). Mel has a rivalry with his brother-in-law, pilot Vernon Demerest ( Dean Martin), over who's right about airport operations. The central drama to this movie seems to be marital problems first in the guise of difficulties between airport manager Mel Bakersfield ( Burt Lancaster) and his wife. The movie begins with the day-to-day concerns and life issues of various crew and patrons of Chicago's fictional Lincoln International Airport ( actually, a redressed Minneapolis-St. Adapted from the novel of the same name by Arthur Hailey, it can be considered a very close and faithful adaptation the sequels, however, have nothing to do with an original book. ![]() Airport, directed by George Seaton and released in 1970, was the first in a series of Disaster Movies produced in that decade and centering around aircraft in distress.
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