Wednesday, 11 March 2015

Airport Franchise Collection (1970-1979)

Airport (1970) Directed by George Seaton and starring Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Jean Seberg, Jacqueline Bisset, Helen Hayes, Van Heflin and George Kennedy. 136m 34s

Airport 1975 (1974) Directed by Jack Smight and starring Charlton Heston, Karen Black,
George Kennedy, Efrem Zimbalist Jr and Dana Andrews. 106mins

Airport '77 (1977) Directed by Jerry Jameson and starring Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, Joseph Cotten, Olivia de Havilland, James Stewart, Christopher Lee and George Kennedy. 113mins

The Concorde - Airport '79 (1979) Directed by David Lowell Rich and starring Alain Delon, 
George Kennedy, Susan Blakely, Robert Wagner and Eddie Albert. 123mins



2-disc 4-film Airport Collection DVD set bought in 2004

Airport (1970) Blu-ray bought in 2013





 DVD






Theatrical Trailer

Ryan's Daughter (1970)

Directed by David Lean and starring Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, Trevor Howard, John Mills and Christopher Jones.


2-disc Special Edition DVD bought in 2006
197mins







Audio commentary with Lady Sandra Lean, actress Sarah Miles, Petrine Day Mitchum (Robert Mitchum's daughter), assistant director Michael Stevenson, second unit director Roy Stevens, art director Roy Walker, assistant editor Tony Lawson, location manager Eddie Fowlie, stuntman Vic Armstrong, biographer Stephen M. Silverman, film critic Richard Schickel, and directors John Boorman, and Hugh Hudson
The Making of Ryan's Daughter (63mins):
Ryan's Daughter: Rising Storm (28mins)
Ryan's Daughter: Storm Chaser (21mins)
Ryan's Daughter: The Eye of the Storm (14mins)
We're the Last of the Travelling Circuses" 1970 featurette (20mins)
Ryan's Daughter: A Story of Love" 1970 featurette (6mins)

Little Big Man (1970)

Directed by Arthur Penn and starring Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Chief Dan George, 
Martin Balsam, Richard Mulligan and Jeff Corey.


DVD bought in 2003
139mins






No extras

Cromwell (1970)

Directed by Ken Hughes and starring Richard Harris, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley, Dorothy Tutin, Frank Finlay and Timothy Dalton.


DVD bought in 2009
134mins






No extras -

Rio Lobo (1970)

Directed by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne, Jorge Rivero, Jennifer O'Neill, 
Christopher Mitchum and Jack Elam.


DVD bought in 2005
110mins







No extras

Chisum (1970)

Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen and starring John Wayne, Forrest Tucker and Ben Johnson 


DVD bought in 2007
111m 14s






Audio commentary by director Andrew V. McLaglen
John Wayne and Chisum" featurette
Theatrical Trailer

Waterloo (1970)

Directed by Sergei Bondarchuk and starring Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles, 
Jack Hawkins, Virginia McKenna and Dan O'Herlihy.


DVD bought in 2002
128mins







Theatrical Trailer