AIRPORT '79: CONCORDE

At twice the speed of sound, can the Concorde evade attack?

Matchless intrigue soars out of the sky at supersonic speed in this incredible tale of airborne suspense derived from Arthur Hailey’s all-time bestseller. Susan Blakely headlines the star-studded, tension-packed international drama as a jet-setting TV reporter who puts everyone on board a Moscow-bound Concorde in jeopardy when she becomes the target of her former lover, traitorous arms smuggler Robert Wagner. The lives of Alain Delon, Sylvia Kristel, Eddie Albert, Bibi Andersson, Charo, John Davidson, Martha Raye, Cicely Tyson, David Warner, Mercedes McCambridge and the mighty George Kennedy hang in the balance amid flying missiles and exploding bombs in this enthralling globe-trotting adventure helmed by director David Lowell Rich (The Horror at 37,000 Feet, SST: Death Flight), a specialist of sky-high suspense.