March 5 1970 

AIRPORT opens in NY.  Director George Seaton's faithful adaption of Arthur Hailey's melodramatic best-seller chronicling 12 chaotic hours in the lives of passengers and crew stranded at a snow-bound mid-west airport. Dean Martin, Burt Lancaster and Geoege Kennedy lead a star-studded cast. Films spawns four sequels and ushers in the decade of the disaster movie.

 

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