{"id":864,"date":"2014-01-20T10:14:45","date_gmt":"2014-01-19T23:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/?p=864"},"modified":"2014-01-20T10:14:45","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T23:14:45","slug":"review-the-concorde-airport-79-1979","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/2014\/01\/20\/review-the-concorde-airport-79-1979\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Concorde&#8230; Airport &#039;79 (1979)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_865\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-865\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/concorde.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-865\" alt=\"concorde\" src=\"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/concorde-300x236.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-865\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Why oh Why didn&#8217;t they just stop at Airport &#8217;77?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Back when the Concorde was big news the last in the <em>Airport<\/em> series of films\u00a0<em>The Concorde&#8230; Airport &#8217;79 (1979)<\/em> came out.<\/p>\n<p>I think perhaps guessing that the franchise had run its course there was a surprise attachment to the cast in the form of Sylvia Kristel as a stewardess. Of course we all know the film (<em>Emannuelle<\/em>) that Sylvia was most famous for and what she did on a plane in that particular film&#8230;I can&#8217;t help but feel her inclusion was designed to attract another type of audience. Sadly she didn&#8217;t live up to expectations of course and she just mumbled her way through a few lines instead.<\/p>\n<p>The film pretty much follows the story of the first film, with a nasty man (Robert Wagner) basically trying to destroy a whole plane just to snuff out his ex-girlfriend. Panned by critics and a mega-flop at the box office, the last in the <em>Airport<\/em> series of films pretty much destroyed the franchise for ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back when the Concorde was big news the last in the Airport series of films\u00a0The Concorde&#8230; Airport &#8217;79 (1979) came out. I think perhaps guessing that the franchise had run its course there was a surprise attachment to the cast in the form of Sylvia Kristel as a stewardess. Of course we all know the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/2014\/01\/20\/review-the-concorde-airport-79-1979\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Review: The Concorde&#8230; Airport &#039;79 (1979)&#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-864","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\/864","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=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}