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This movie was bloody awful..


It starts with Lee Grant's agonizing portrayal of a nagging wife and veteran actor Christopher Lee tolerating it and in turn telling Lemon that he's an experienced scuba diver to attempt a rescue by leaving the plane only to perish carelessly before the attempt gets underway. Then we see Lemon wasting time attempting to give his oxygen to a corpse under water before surfacing to get a navy boat's attention and three bumbling thieves who manage to cancel each other out in attempting a heist..4/10

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It is a pretty bad movie but still great to see so many names together. Despite the sometimes bad special effects, the stupid thieves and the soap drama going on between the men and women it is an enjoyable bad movie for me. I like all of them, including the 1979 one which has a real "TV" feel to it.

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The fact that these movies all laid the groundwork for Airplane!! make them worthy of our respect

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So true! Love both those movies.

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Yes indeed!!

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