{"id":850,"date":"2014-01-20T09:53:05","date_gmt":"2014-01-19T22:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/?p=850"},"modified":"2014-01-20T09:53:05","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T22:53:05","slug":"review-airport-1970","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/2014\/01\/20\/review-airport-1970\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Airport (1970)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_852\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-852\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/airport1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-852\" alt=\"airport1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/airport1-300x194.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-852\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Burt Lancaster and the gang<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I must admit to not having seen the airport series of movies before, although now that they all have been released on DVD I thought they&#8217;d be worth a look.<\/p>\n<p>Right away its fairly obvious where they got most of the gag ideas for the <em>Flying Hig<\/em>h series of movies and all those jokes that went over my head now seem to make a lot more sense.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t expecting anything too spectacular from these films, with their cavalcade of fading actors (I was pretty much just looking forward to the <em>Love Boat<\/em> in the air); I was however delightfully surprised with a tension filled film that kept me interested right until the closing moments.<\/p>\n<p><em>Airport<\/em> is as much a melodrama about the day to day lives of the airport employees, as it is a serious drama about set in the air. The difference I think is that whilst melodramatic, it is done on such a large scale with so many actually very good actors (sorry for saying they were fading!) that the day to day becomes intensely interesting and lavish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must admit to not having seen the airport series of movies before, although now that they all have been released on DVD I thought they&#8217;d be worth a look. Right away its fairly obvious where they got most of the gag ideas for the Flying High series of movies and all those jokes that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/2014\/01\/20\/review-airport-1970\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Review: Airport (1970)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}