What an interesting premise! The V.I.P.s starts out like every other disaster movie, with lots of big name stars arriving at the airport. Everyone has a very good reason for wanting to get on the plane, so naturally, you assume that the disaster will happen once everyone's in the air. Actually, the disaster happens before that: all flights are delayed to due weather! Since no one can get on the airplane, their plans are seriously derailed.
Real life spouses Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor play a married couple, but after he sees her off to her flight to Jamaica, we find out she's actually planning on flying to New York with Louis Jourdan and eloping with him! She's left Dick a note at home for him to find after she's gone, so with a flight delay, she gets understandably very nervous. Rod Taylor, with his natural Australian accent, is disturbed by a bad business deal, and he and his devoted secretary Maggie Smith have to try and fix it with long-distance phone-calls from the airport. Margaret Rutherford is mysterious and unusually attached to her luggage, and is in a great hurry to get in the air. . . And a flamboyant Orson Welles is anxious to fly to film his next motion picture with his leading lady Elsa Martinelli.
Louis Jourdan says, "I have a feeling the next hour is going to drag a bit. What are we going to do with it?" when there is almost exactly one hour left in the film. It's the little things in life that count! The V.I.P.s have a few cute sweet moments, but it's mostly a very tense drama that puts just as much strain on the audience's emotions as the characters. I highly recommend it!
Real life spouses Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor play a married couple, but after he sees her off to her flight to Jamaica, we find out she's actually planning on flying to New York with Louis Jourdan and eloping with him! She's left Dick a note at home for him to find after she's gone, so with a flight delay, she gets understandably very nervous. Rod Taylor, with his natural Australian accent, is disturbed by a bad business deal, and he and his devoted secretary Maggie Smith have to try and fix it with long-distance phone-calls from the airport. Margaret Rutherford is mysterious and unusually attached to her luggage, and is in a great hurry to get in the air. . . And a flamboyant Orson Welles is anxious to fly to film his next motion picture with his leading lady Elsa Martinelli.
Louis Jourdan says, "I have a feeling the next hour is going to drag a bit. What are we going to do with it?" when there is almost exactly one hour left in the film. It's the little things in life that count! The V.I.P.s have a few cute sweet moments, but it's mostly a very tense drama that puts just as much strain on the audience's emotions as the characters. I highly recommend it!