Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. did a good job!

Such a handsome man...so believably butchered in the face after the mid-air collision -- especially his eye.

There's a lot of "corn" in Airport 1975 but once the crisis goes into action, there is a some gripping realistic drama , too.

I like how the flight attendants offer to give Zimbalist morphine or something to "put him out," but he strains to say "No...I can help." Even semii-consicious. And of course, later he does when Karen Black loses all radio contact with the ground and Zimbalist manages to say a few words that save the day ("Thrusters forward, about an inch.")

George Kennedy was an amiable presence in 70's movies, no longer ALWAYS a villain(but sometimes) and in the Airport series a good guy. Here he gets a scene talking by radio to his wife and son who are on the possibly doomed plane and suddenly "pulls off" great emotion, choking back tears as a man WOULD who might be about to lose wife and child. After all, he did have an Oscar.

Movies like "Airport 1975" are not ALL bad. Generally actors want to play good scenes or lines. SOME of the cast in Airport 1975 get SOME such lines and scenes. (Not Helen Reddy and Linda Blair though!)

Such a handsome man...so believably butchered in the face after the mid-air collision -- especially his eye.

There's a lot of "corn" in Airport 1975 but once the crisis goes into action, there is a some gripping realistic drama , too.

I like how the flight attendants offer to give Zimbalist morphine or something to "put him out," but he strains to say "No...I can help." Even semi-consicious. And of course, later he does when Karen Black loses all radio contact with the ground and Zimbalist manages to say a few words that save the day ("Thrusters forward, about an inch.")

George Kennedy was an amiable presence in 70's movies, no longer ALWAYS a villain(but sometimes) and in the Airport series a good guy. Here he gets a scene talking by radio to his wife and son who are on the possibly doomed plane and suddenly "pulls off" great emotion, choking back tears as a man WOULD who might be about to lose wife and child. After all, he did have an Oscar.

Movies like "Airport 1975" are not ALL bad. Generally actors want to play good scenes or lines. SOME of the cast in Airport 1975 get SOME such lines and scenes. (Not Helen Reddy and Linda Blair though!)