We meet Phil Harris on the plane and we then see flashbacks of his entire lousy vacation. It was like watching somebody's home movies. He had a lousy vacation and it rained so he had to spend most of it in his hotel room writing postcards with is wife. That actually looked kind of fun.
shareLol I agree...a silly feature of this movie
sharePhil Harris's vacation and all the mishaps the guy and his wife had were funny. Then, to top it all off, they're on an airplane that's about to crash! Luckily for them it didn't but what else befell them on their way home?
shareI actually liked that flashback and it was narrated.
The one I didn't like was the guy painting and suddenly he was a scientist who could blow up the world, or Sally's boyfriend out at his little cabin talking to a deer.
Those I didn't care for.
A hokey piece of garbage from start to finish.
I'm surprised at you gb! Don't you remember that Lucy Ricardo loved this film? LOL
"When your motor conked out, MY motor conked out! That's REAL acting!"
I’m surprised too!
share I remember the line, and knew it was from this airborne turkey, but I had no idea how truly awful this film
was until I watched it yesterday on DVD with my mom. We both sat there stunned, but both also managed
to howl at the horrible dialogue ("How can I be afraid while You're holding me?").
Phil Harris was SUPPOSED to be the comic relief, but he was outshone by:
His wife, a FORTY-THREE year-old Ann Doran announcing she was THIRTY (when she LOOKED SIXTY).
Jan Sterling, telling her troubles to, I don't know, some guy name Robert Stack, who was SUPPOSED TO
BE PILOTING THE PLANE???
Some white guy, playing a Spanish fisherman (yuck) who GIVES BACK THE GUN to a nutcase who fired it
45 minutes earlier in an attempt to kill another passenger.
Let's not forget the stewardess doesn't even put on a life vest, but orders everyone ELSE to. Then she LET'S
a 10 year-old boy SLEEP in such a position that any crash landing would surely KILL the kid, as he'd be
unprepared for impact.
As the for opening, it played like an episode of "Love Boat", with all the cliche characters being described as
they signed on board.
I actually WANTED them to crash in the ocean, if only to see MORE makeup being washed off of Sterling's face,
and to bring some excitement to a thudding bore of a "classic."
Yes, something like "Airport '75" is worse...but not by MUCH. At least here, we didn't have Helen Reddy
playing a guitar-playing NUN!
From your description, this movie sounds like the aviation version of "Plan 9 from Outer Space"! lol I'll have to find a copy of this film. I'll probably enjoy it. For some perverse reason I often get a kick out of the worst movies. They're sort of like an auto accident. You know you should look away, but you can't help yourself and you stare.
Despite all the times I've heard Lucy reference this film, I never knew what it was about. I always thought it was another of John Wayne's innumerable World War 2 flicks.
The first Airport was a good movie. I really enjoyed it. But the subsequent Airports were typical Hollywood cashing in on a popular movie.
Airport 75 was not too awful. At least it was watchable. But Airport 77! I could hardly get past the first half hour. I had to turn it off. A plane ditches in the ocean and stays perfectly intact...UNDER WATER! Yeah, everyone knows that airplanes are built to be watertight like submarines.
Have to disagree. While both are horrible, I far believe a plane sinking, and the temporary air in the
cabin helping them figure out a rescue.
But in AP '75, the whole HALF of the cockpit is torn out, but Karen Black ISN'T SUCKED OUT OF THE
PLANE????
And there is NO GREATER howler in an A movie (EVER!), than Helen Reddy playing a guitar-strumming
NUN (!) to a kidney-stricken Linda Blair. When Blair smiles in her close-ups, I actually think she was
laughing!
The only thing more boring than an singing nun is Helen Reddy PLAYING one!!!!
As for THATM, John Wayne owned the rights, and withheld it from release until after his '79 death!
Only his greedy children, who saw a cash cow in view, paid to have it restored, then released in '05.
It isn't as bad as AP '75 and AP '77, but it comes close. Plus, it's TWO AND HALF HOURS LONG!!!!
Well, neither Airport movie is on my list of "DVDs that I must add to my collection". lol
It's been many years since i've seen either. I remember "75 as the one with the "plucky stewardess who has to fly the plane." That was the high point of the movie for me, if you can call it a high point. Now that you mention it, I sort of recall Helen Reddy as a singing nun.
To me, the second movie really strains credulity. Maybe it's from my days as a flight attendant. In our safety training we learned that if you are ditching in the ocean, the best thing to do is launch those life rafts and get everyone OUT quickly because, sure as shootin', that plane is gonna fill up with water and sink fast.
Oh, wow, I never knew you were a flight attendant. But I really only know you as a divorcee who
wears purple pajamas and watches "I Love Lucy" (and speaking of, which, where ARE you THERE
these days??). As if you don't have tons of other life experiences, shows, movies...and CLOTHES.
You're probably technically right about the ocean in AP '77. But if you watch the trailers for both
on Youtube (I just did this week), I think the AP ' 75 is more laughable (the scene where Karen
Black is trying to help lower another pilot into her plane from a helicopter above is absolutely
hilarious!!).
Purple pajamas? I didn't know what you meant until I realized "Oh pjpurple". P and J are my initials, not a description of my nightwear. Actually my pj's are mostly pink if you MUST know. lol
Pilots being lowered into the plane? I remember that scene too. Reminds me of work when sometimes a pilot would be late. He'd get on another plane which would catch up to us and lower the pilot into a gaping hole in the flight deck. A very common practice. ha ha
I've been watching some of season three ILL. It seems to be my "go to" season. I've been thinking of doing a mini marathon of some of season two before the Ricardos make the move to the new apartment.
GB are MY initials! I don't know why, but I thought, for some reason, that "PJPurple" meant
you wore purple pajamas (you'd have to live in my head to know why I think like I do).
I've been watching a lot of season two AND three lately.
I've grown CRAZY about the one wear Fred throws Ricky a stag party! Every scene and
every line is hilarious. I've also watched "No Children Allowed" and "Lucy Hires a Maid"
TWICE in the last two weeks.
This week, I watched "Equal Rights" and "Lucy Has Her Eyes Examined", as well as "Baby
Pictures" and "Lucy Tells the Truth" (WHY do I love Caroline so much MORE before her
nose job?!).
Will I ever get over my addiction, or will I have to someday attend AlaLucyanonymous???
Oh the stag party!!
Ethel to Fred: How did you see through my disguise?
Fred: What disguise?
I never get tired of "Lucy Tells the Truth". Sometimes I wonder why Lucy doesn't realize that declining to give an answer is not the same as lying. When her busybody buddies wanted to know her age, her weight, and her hair color, she could have just said that it was none of their business and not answered.
Of course Lucy was funnier when she gave her brutally honest opinion about all of them.
Well, Lucy's FIRST mistake is admitting to Ethel that she hates Caroline's "Chinese
Modern." All she had to do was say NOTHING, or even lie to Ethel and say she
liked it!! How would Ethel know, anyway? Lucy had some Chinese figurines on her
own mantel. But the brilliance is Lucy's catty tongue getting ahead of her.
As for her admitting her age, weight and hair color, I think by this point, she was getting
OFF on being "brutally frank" (Ethel's words).
The bigger thing is it's hard to imagine Ethel FORGETTING Lucy admitting her age
when Lucy and Ethel fight to hide their real age from each other ALL THROUGH
the series!! Just two years later, Ethel tries to listen in on Lucy while she attempts
to tell city hall what year she was born! Surely, Ethel would know Lucy was now 35!
I forgot about Lucy's Chinese figurines. Never liked them anyway. I always thought that it was interesting that Lucy wanted new furniture every year, but she never changed the bric-a-brac!
Those figurines and the pictures above the Ricardo beds never changed. Lucy liked to change furniture all the time. You'd think she would've been redecorating and changing everything.
For best friends, Lucy and Ethel sure could be coy about their ages. What was the big deal? Lucy was fine with blurting out her age at Caroline's house. But it became a secret again?
Of course Lucy never liked to reveal her age to anyone. I forget the episode, but there was a time where Lucy was being interviewed. She hesitated about the year she graduated. She said something like, "Let's just say I graduated four years after I started."
And in the episode when her mother-in-law visits, Ricky has the mind reader demonstrate his act to Lucy. She tells his assistant her birthdate, August 6th.
When the assistant asks, "August 6th what?", Lucy replies, "August 6th, period!"
Age is a funny thing. I work with many younger people (whom I mostly adore).
I know all their ages, but I NEVER admit to mine (my boss knows, due to paper
work). I'm fortunate to look some years younger than I am, so why spoil
the illusion?
When someone does get nosy and ask my age, I respond by quoting the
line from the musical "Mame": "Somewhere between 40 and DEATH." I always
get a great laugh!
Seriously though, all my friends know each other's ages, especially my best
friend, Janice and me. It's part of intimate friendship.
Even though I don't think it's very realistic that Lucy and Ethel wouldn't find
out each other's ages (even by accident), it does make for some funny
moments on ILL.
We DO know that Lucy is in her 30's, and Ethel is in her 40's. (The latter is
established in "Ethel's Birthday").
I'm "funny" about that age thing myself! I'm probably the oldest person of all the staff that I work with. But like you, I look a bit younger, so I don't volunteer my age! Actually, I'm probably in the best health too. Everyone seems to have some medical problem or another. One of the women I work with is years younger than I am but she uses a cane. She can hardly get around. She's diabetic too. Except for sinus headaches, I have always enjoyed excellent health.
Interesting coincidence that your best friend is Janice. That's my mom's name. Is she an old friend? Old friends are the best. My best friend from waaay back in grade school is Kathy. No use trying to be coy about my age with her! She knows I am two months older than she is. She even knows my REAL hair color. LOL
I can understand Lucy trying to hide her age. She was vain. But I wonder why Ethel was that way. Maybe because she was older than Lucy and hated to admit it?
No sexism intended, but I do think it's a female thing for the most part.
The woman actress from GH I interviewed didn't offer her age, and I would've
never asked.
Still, maybe it's not so much a female thing, as an "older" person's thing.
For instance, in the "Madame X" episode Lucy asks how old Fred is going
to be, and he doesn't offer HIS age. I'm sure Ricky, too, was just as vain.
An "older person's thing"?? I'll have you know that I am very young for an "older" person! LOL
Come to think of it, my grandmother never liked to tell her age. My mom wasn't even sure sometimes.
She used to say that, "She fudged her age so much, I was never sure."
You interviewed a GH actress? I used to watch that show. For actresses and probably for some actors, it's a matter of survival to keep young. Many actresses lose roles when they are perceived to be "too old". In the acting business, it's probably the best thing to be a character actor. Those people seem to work well into old age.
Yes, I'm a part time freelance writer. I've actually written two
GH articles. I loved the women I interviewed (and their characters),
but you might not remember them.
Mary O'Brien (Heather Webber #2)
Brooke Bundy (Dina Taylor #2).
They're still up on the "GH Megasite."
A writer? Cool
I definitely remember Heather Webber, but I didn't remember Mary O'Brien. I had to look her up. I watched GH sporadically throughout the seventies. One of my best friends used to watch it after school with her grandmother. So in the summer, if my friend was at my house, we had to stop and watch GH.
I remember the first Heather, Cher's sister, Georgiane LaPiere. I stopped watching the show and I missed Mary O'Brien's Heather.
I started to watch again when Robin Mattson played her. She's the Heather I recall most clearly.
I really like Brooke Bundy. She never had her own show, but she was one of my favorite "guest starring" actresses. I remember her better from Days of Our Lives. I used to watch DOOL with MY grandmother.
I'll have to check out the GH megasite.
Speaking of age...If you read the Mary O'Brien article (which I
did in 2008), you'll find out MY exact age!!
Both women were wonderful to interview, and Mary became a
personal friend. She was Heather from '77 to '79.
Robin Mattson is also very effective.
Honestly, who cares about these characters' ceaselessly boring backstories? This script is so ham handed, it defies belief!
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