Another all-star cast(including Jack Lemmon, Jimmy Stewart, Darren McGavin, Olivia De Havilland, Christopher Lee, Lee Grant, and returning actor George Kennedy as Joe Patroni) enliven this film about a 747 loaded with valuable art and passengers is threatened by thieves who knock out the crew with gas, in order to steal the art, only the plan goes wrong and they crash into shallow(100 feet) of ocean water. The survivors desperately try to escape the plane, before it's flooded.
Despite a plot that seems like a cross between "Airport" & "The Poseidon Adventure", this entry is surprisingly entertaining, with good direction by Jerry Jameson, and good acting by the stars, especially Jack Lemmon, who invests his character with more humanity and character than was likely in the script.
Highly satisfying yarn with a plot later memorably used in an early episode of "The Incredible Hulk" TV series(called '747'!)
Despite a plot that seems like a cross between "Airport" & "The Poseidon Adventure", this entry is surprisingly entertaining, with good direction by Jerry Jameson, and good acting by the stars, especially Jack Lemmon, who invests his character with more humanity and character than was likely in the script.
Highly satisfying yarn with a plot later memorably used in an early episode of "The Incredible Hulk" TV series(called '747'!)