I got in big trouble because of this theme song. When I was in 1st grade I couldn't stop humming this song. So then, the teacher made me hum it in front of the whole class. I laugh at this now, but at the time I was really embarrassed. Good memories...

Filmed at MSP January 31st to June 1969. I first saw it Nov. 11th, 1973 on ABC, it's first airing. This is the first blockbuster disaster film. The critics hated it; the audience loved it.

This movie partly led to me wanting to become a commercial pilot when i grew up. Now here i am:)

After watching Patroni on the throttle with a cigar in his mouth,we made a 707 cockpit under the bottom staircase as 10 year olds watching the movie on TV in '75 with bubble gum cigars🛬

Amazing how Newman pumps so much excitement into shots of snow plows!

I watched this movie in the theatre 3 times in a row as a 10 year old. My big sister and her girlfriends were babysitting me and they LOVED this film.

Those were hustle-bustle times in 1970... a very sophisticated era of massive change. We had just put men on the moon and 747s were in the air. Just about everything we have now was on the drawing boards or in its infancy back then. This theme projects that feeling. The poorly educated kids now probably think 1970 was just past the dawn of prehistoric man.

Great soundtrack, brilliant story and a wonderful screen adaptation from the book. Airport is the only movie I think I've ever seen that got (almost) all the technical details dead right, and yet was still able to tell the story properly. Still my favorite aviation movie of all time (well, other than "Airplane!" but that's not important right now).

First watched Airport last year and proud to call it a classic masterpiece that we rarely get these days. One of the most perfect ways to open a movie with to let audiences know they're about to watch one of the best films ever made. Rest In Print: the brilliant cast and crew.

First movie I have memories of seeing in the theatre. I was 6 years old, and I fell in love with Dean Martin and this music...loved both ever since.

Alfred Newman's Last Film Score!

I keep watching this and listening to Alfred Newman's rousing main title, so I think I have to get the movie, just to remember old times when my siblings and I were friendly instead of fussy.

Amazing music score by the great Alfred Newman.

Phantastic Greatest Music , Story, Actors and the Boeing 707!!

Fantastic film Brilliant soundtrack by Alfred Newman R I P !!!!!

One of the very few soundtracks worthy of a wide-screen.

Excellent musical score for such a memorable film!

I was at SFO last February and someone had the a/c on in the people movers, the area was and is open to the elements and it was freezing at 6am and there is nowhere to get food or drink outside of the security check in except for a lone Starbucks that had 12 people in line. A far cry from the days in the 1970s where I would take the airporter bus to SFO, get a snack, buy a paper or book to read & take the wonderful PSA to LA for $19 & fly down, have dinner with friends, be driven back to the airport & get back on PSA & be back home by 2am. PSA had the best looking stewardesses ever too. It was fun to fly on it.

It just takes a good opening to assure us it's going to be a great film !

So, it turns out Alfred Newman composed the music to many of my favorite movies. I'm happy to learn this!

Great score by the great Al Newman, who was also a very fine conductor as well. In this case the opening titles and scenes were put together following the music and not the other way around.

Great final film score by Newman!

Such a perfect bit of theme music!!!❤

One of my favorites. I got to stay stay up late to watch this one. In all the years I've watched this movie, I never noticed Snoopy on the Tower console. Nice touch for an awesome movie.

Newman's last score. He definitely went out with a bang!

Burt Lancaster said this movie was garbage and hated it. Words to that effect anyway. And the tab crashed while I was starting to write this. I saw this in the theater the day it opened in 1970 and liked it and bought the album. For years you could find the LP marked down to as low as 50 cents. The one who steals the movie is George Kennedy as Patroni. I was waiting for a sequel called Patroni. :) Kennedy was a great scene stealer and I always enjoyed seeing him.

I love this movie. I first saw it as a kid in 1970 when my family went as a group to see it. I have seen it it numerous times since then.

I really like this introduction for this movie because the setback is Wintertime 1970 because it shows all of the grounds crew preparing the runways and clearing all of the snow for the aircraft to take off & land plus seeing a front loader tractor removing snow from the parking lots & all which is really cool to see back then because I still have original Airport Franchise collection on DVD .

When the snow melts in April, we'll get it out.

The movie that started it all. Airport 1975, Airport '77 and The Concorde... Airport '79.

Newman's Main Title is the reason we go to movies.

Great cast...Great movie.

Brilliant Title Music Just Perfect For The Story!

Absolutely Great!

This movie came out the same year my sister Karen applied for and became a Pan American stewardess (or, as we say today., flight attendant). So this title theme was her anthem, and she vowed to go out and "make like Jacqueline Bisset" in the movie, which she did, except that she never got injured on a flight.

GREAT movie!

Good music by top composer

A gorgeous, thrilling theme, and pretty kickass for a man of 69! Please note: while this is a terrific performance, it is not the recording from the movie. The recording heard in the movie was conducted by Alfred Newman. Also, while Laszlo was a great DP, most of this title sequence was likely shot by the 2nd Unit Team. (Usually DPs don't do the sorts of "generic" shots used in this title sequence.)

Great great music! A great opening!! It reminds of O'Hare airport in the 1970s. Burt Lancaster and George Kennedy how could you go wrong. Mark in Milwaukee 🍻

If that soundtrack & opening credits don't give you the impression you're about to watch a great escapist film, I don't know what to tell you....

Apparently it was his last score he recorded. Passed away the same year the movie was released.

Admirable performance la música compuesta por Alfred Newman ...una película PERFECTA por el casting y la.. excelente adaptación de la novela de Arthur Hailey❗❗❗💞

Universal was the snow king with this and Ice Station Zebra . Really set the stage for chilling adventure

The first of it's kind and absolutely the best!

When you have the first screen James Bond and the first screen Matt Helm together in the same cockpit ... what could go wrong?

Still a Class-Act Movie 🎥 on all levels

Pilot: Need I remind your mechanic here, I've logged over 3 million miles in the sky.... Joe Patroni: ....and 2 1/2 feet in the ground!

Fantastic

I first saw this at Radio City Music hall as a 15 year-old. I watched it again in college, multiple times on TV or at revival houses in the years that followed & last year on streaming. Hands down still the greatest all-star disaster film ever made. When the title comes flying at you on the screen to the blasting horn music of the sensational Alfred Newman score, you know you're in for a major thrill ride.

Saw at radio city music hall nyc easter show with the rockettes.

I flew for the first time in 2006 when I went to London and I got hooked on watching this movie for like six months prior to leaving. Of all the airport/airplane travel movies to watch and I chose this one. I love this movie and just couldn’t help it. To this day I love airports. I think I could live in one bc honestly they have everything you need and I love airplanes so I would be content

This movie is such a classic. Burt Lancaster is something else. George Kennedy more than something else!

Whenever I fly from an airport affected by snowfall, I have this music and the scenes in my head

Ahhhh nice... the correct aspect ratio is much appreciated. _Airport_ was a great movie. The sequels, notsomuch.

Speaking of snowy frozen weather in general, however bad you think it is during the day, wait until even the hint of sun goes down and the temps drop even lower at night. 😬

Qué magnífico compositor ! Insuperable Alfred Newman

Top 10 Best 70s Movie Theme.

Epic theme !!!

Superrrrrrr

As Mel Brooks once said...."Wow! What a dramatic airport!!"

A pilot from your flight 45 made a shortcut across the field and he didnt make it

Dad's 69 Mercury Marquis at 1:42.

懐かしいです。 空港パニック✈️初の映画👍 大好きです。 音楽🎵も好きですね。 シェアします。

To paraphrase Mel Brooks from HIGH ANXIETY, "What a dramatic airport!"

A driving snowfall in crystal blue clear sky conditions 🤣😂

I find the electric bass part incongruous with such a big and masterful score, but I would never second-guess Alfred Newman as he was considered first among his peers. I am making an educated guess from the tone of the instrument that that is Carol Kaye of the Wrecking Crew is on the bass using her famous felt pick.

Mom and Dad and friends went downtown Chicago to see it at the Oriental...forgotten which month of 1970. I was 12 or 13. Most of the stars were on their "way out", especially Lancaster, but he rocked.

From the Jack Hayes, Leo Shuken orchestration team.

Captain Anson Harris went on to manage the Overlook Hotel in The Shining and gave Jack Torrance the job as caretaker, another great Winter flick

Nice re-edit of scenes at the end!

Finde ich super Film ❤❤❤

I'll steal/repeat a line from another poster on the opening (which I love, btw) - "Wow, those are some dramatic snow plows!" Always gave me a chuckle ..

Airport is the best, but another disasters movies in 70s including 2 Irwin Allen disaster movie is The Poseidon Adventures & The Towering Inferno & epic disaster WW2 movie biopic Patton

Boeing 377 Stratocruiser at 1:00!

I notice a similarity between this and Gershwin Cuban Overture. Favorite opening theme of any film. Also on my list, the opening to North By Notthwest.

Il migliore 🔝🔝🔝

Barbara Hale looked so good in this movie.. #DellaStreetcrush.

Awesome

Amigos do KZfaq! Como gostaríamos que exibissem este filme inteiramente, para que do KZfaq pudéssemos passar para a TV. ? Fariam um belo ato de caridade aos amantes dos filmes de avião comercial...E se não for trabalho de pesquisa, "ir ao fundo do baú" , retirar filmes épicos.

In Chicago rn, playing this as I’m rushing to my flight on a shuttle bus

They should do a remake of this only at Denver International Airport with the national guard helping out at Pina Blvd.

Would make the hair stand up on my head if I wasn't bald.

Anyone notice Snoopy with a scarf and a headset on the controller's console?

Intro de teletrece canal 13 de chile, 1970-1977📽️📽️📽️📺

Joe Patroni, best character George Kennedy ever played

That flame thrower thing must have been experimental or something. I have never seen them in my career.

This film should remastered on put out in 4k bluray with extras not like the shifty bluray we have now.

Get them Dino

My how MSP has grown since then.

Fantastic score and composition by Alfred E Newman sadly I believe this was his last movie composition before his death. I thought Dean Martin was great in this role seemed tailor made for him

The one thing we never saw was the de-icing of the planes. In our Mpls weather the planes get treated before take offs

リメイクでもこの作品は超えられないでしょう。

Tele13 1970

Apparently Petroni taught Chick Norris everything he knows.

Was actually filmed at Minneapolis International......without the Protesters and Antifa, too

"AIRPORT 1970"

BUS STATION!

This film showed examples of character aspects of the World War two generation. As they started dying is the same time that the society started going down the drain.

TELETRECE CHILE

So nice to hear all these stories of people's memories from when going to the movies (as an exalted experience above a three network TV universe) was, at the least, a special occasion but more often than not, an event unto itself...seems we've lost that...going to the movies now feels like a Wendy's Drive-Thru.