Synopsis
The Concorde... Airport '79 (1979) is the fourth and final entry in Universal's Airport disaster franchise, directed by David Lowell Rich — watch it online on iFILM. Alain Delon and George Kennedy co-pilot a supersonic Concorde from Washington to Paris, with Robert Wagner, Sylvia Kristel and a full cast of familiar faces filling the passenger cabin.
The trouble starts when a journalist on board carries documents linking a major arms manufacturer to illegal weapons sales. The company's CEO decides destroying the plane mid-flight is the tidiest solution. What follows is a relay race of near-disasters: a heat-seeking missile, an intercept by a French fighter jet, and a final approach over the Alps with no functioning brakes.
By any standard of craft it's a clunky film, but that's almost beside the point — Airport '79 is pure late-70s disaster-movie spectacle, the kind where the star power is the plot and the stunts are practical. Stream The Concorde... Airport '79 online on iFILM.
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