Airport: The Complete Collection

""Airport"" (1974) is a taut adaptation of Arthur Hailey's novel about a snowbound Chicago airport that must prepare for the arrival of a Boeing 707 passenger plane that's been damaged by a suicide bomber. Burt Lancaster stars as the airport manager who leads a desperate scramble to clear the runway in time for the emergency landing, and Dean Martin is the veteran pilot who has his hands full in the air. Jean Seberg, Jacqueline Bisset, George Kennedy, Helen Hayes co-star. Then, a 747 and a small private plane collide in mid-air and now the pilotless jumbo jet is on a collision course with destruction, in "Airport 1975" (1974). Charlton Heston, Karen Black, and George Kennedy star. "Airport '77" (1977) stars Jack Lemmon, James Stewart, and Olivia de Havilland as passengers trapped in a jetliner that crashes in the Bermuda Triangle. A ruthless businessman tries to blow up a goodwill U.S.-Soviet flight in "The Concorde: Airport '79" (1979). With Robert Wagner, Kennedy. 8 hrs. total on four discs. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: English DTS 5.1 Master Audio, Dolby Digital stereo Master Audio, Dolby Digital stereo; Subtitles: English (SDH), Spanish.