Airport '77 (Jerry Jameson [who?],1977)

My least favorite of the Airports because so much of it was processual with endless shots of (admittedly sexy) Navy guys lifting the crashed plane from the ocean and rescuing passengers. Also, we got too little of the characters' stories. Who exactly were these people? And finally, the plane itself was so preposterously opulent that it didn't feel like a plane at all! Two staircases, bedrooms, a library, a bar, a piano player/lounge singer, a hutch full of presumably pricey artifacts, gambling, a tabletop Pong machine, etc. We weren't even sure the plane had taken off. If you ever wanted to know what it's like to have a night club crash into an ocean, this is your film. Intermittent fun but the coldest of the four. Grade: B-minus.