Why oh Why didn’t they just stop at Airport ’77?

Back when the Concorde was big news the last in the Airport series of films The Concorde… Airport ’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 film (Emannuelle) that Sylvia was most famous for and what she did on a plane in that particular film…I can’t help but feel her inclusion was designed to attract another type of audience. Sadly she didn’t live up to expectations of course and she just mumbled her way through a few lines instead.

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 Airport series of films pretty much destroyed the franchise for ever.