I think Airport was the ur-disaster movie. There's a blizzard going on as a flight to Italy takes off from Orchard Airport (a thinly disguised O'Hare -- it used to be named Orchard, which is why the call sign is "ORD").
Aboard are a guy with a bomb who plans to blow up the plane for insurance money, an elderly serial stowaway (played by Helen Hayes, who won an Oscar for the part), a charismatic and married captain, a stewardess (this was before flight attendants) who is pregnant with his child), and an obnoxious twit -- plus many others. (Actually, the pregnant stewardess plot may just be in the book, which I also read a bunch of times.)
On the ground is the guy who runs the airport, who's trying to cope with everything.
Suspense and hilarity ensues.
(Part of the reason I found the book fascinating as a teen was that there wasn't a lot of sex in the book, but there was a lot of thinking about sex, and the varying perspectives were so interesting.)
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Date: 2019-05-26 11:18 pm (UTC)Aboard are a guy with a bomb who plans to blow up the plane for insurance money, an elderly serial stowaway (played by Helen Hayes, who won an Oscar for the part), a charismatic and married captain, a stewardess (this was before flight attendants) who is pregnant with his child), and an obnoxious twit -- plus many others. (Actually, the pregnant stewardess plot may just be in the book, which I also read a bunch of times.)
On the ground is the guy who runs the airport, who's trying to cope with everything.
Suspense and hilarity ensues.
(Part of the reason I found the book fascinating as a teen was that there wasn't a lot of sex in the book, but there was a lot of thinking about sex, and the varying perspectives were so interesting.)