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This big-screen adaptation of Arthur Haley's best-seller rises above Seventies kitsch thanks to Burt Lancaster's typically measured performance as Mel Bakersfeld, manager of a small Midwestern airport, who has to balance a volatile home life with a snowstorm, a passenger carrying a bomb and a plane stuck in the mud.

Keywords:

Drama, Thriller, Disaster, Based-on-Novel, Movie, Film, Movies, Films, Oscar Best Picture Nominated

Additional Information:

(1970) (USA) (3 Star)

Cast:

Burt Lancaster	.... Mel Bakersfeld
Dean Martin	.... Capt. Vernon Demerest
Jean Seberg	.... Tanya Livingston

Supporting Cast:

Jacqueline Bisset	.... Gwen Meighen
George Kennedy	.... Joe Patroni
Helen Hayes	.... Ada Quonsett
Van Heflin	.... D. O. Guerrero
Maureen Stapleton	.... Inez Guerrero
Barry Nelson	.... Capt. Anson Harris
Dana Wynter	.... Cindy Bakersfeld
Lloyd Nolan	.... Harry Standish
Barbara Hale	.... Sarah Bakersfeld Demerest
Gary Collins	.... Cy Jordan
John Findlater	.... Peter Coakley
Jessie Royce Landis	.... Mrs. Harriet DuBarry Mossman

Directors:

Henry Hathaway
George Seaton

Writers:

Arthur Hailey
George Seaton