Lost in the Bermuda Triangle
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| German title | Lost in the Bermuda Triangle | ||
| Original title | Airport '77 | ||
| Country of production | United States | ||
| original language | English | ||
| Publishing year | 1977 | ||
| length | 114 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 12 | ||
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| Director | Jerry Jameson | ||
| script |
Michael Scheff David Spector |
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| production | William Frye | ||
| music | John Cacavas | ||
| camera | Philip H. Lathrop | ||
| cut |
Robert Watts J. Terry Williams |
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Lost in the Bermuda Triangle (Alternative title: Airport 77 - Verschollen im Bermuda Triangle; also: Airport III - Verschollen im Bermuda Triangle; original title: Airport '77 ) is an American disaster film from 1977 . Directed by Jerry Jameson and written by Michael Scheff and David Spector . It is the follow-up film from Giants in the Sky from 1975 and thus the second of a total of three sequels to Airport from 1970 , the plot of which is based on the novel by Arthur Hailey .
action
The richly wealthy entrepreneur Stevens has a few dozen friends and relatives fly a few dozen friends and family to his residence in Florida in his new luxury private jumbo, a converted Boeing 747 , under the command of the experienced flight captain Gallagher . The hold is full of fine art objects for a new private Stevens museum. And these are the treasures that a few criminals who sneaked into the crew, including the copilot Chambers, are after. At the right moment, they put on gas masks and anaesthetize the other occupants with the help of special gas that they feed into the aircraft's air conditioning system. Then they steer the aircraft below the radar surveillance in order to get to a disused airfield on a lonely island without being seen. There they want to reload the prey undisturbed and run away while the others are still unconscious.
But shortly before the destination, things went wrong: The low-flying plane brushed the top of an oil derrick with a wing. The copilot can no longer keep the damaged machine in the air and has to make an emergency landing. A few of the passengers and all of the kidnappers except Chambers are killed. The machine sinks within a few moments, but since the sea is not very deep at this point, it soon hits the bottom and the hull can withstand the water pressure for a while.
The surviving occupants come to consciousness in the aircraft fuselage lying on the sea floor. You interrogate the injured Chambers and find out what happened. Since the plane touched down a long way from the known course, you have to expect that you won't be looking for it here. You can't send a distress signal underwater, so you come up with a rescue plan: Captain Gallagher and the passenger Wallace, an experienced diver, lock themselves in a chamber that is to be flooded, equipped with an inflatable boat and an emergency transmitter. Wallace dies in a tragic incident, but Gallagher manages to get to the surface and guide the US Navy, which is already searching.
A rescue operation is organized in which the aircraft is lifted from the sea floor with some air-filled balloons. The trapped are freed, with some things happening in the last second - Chambers, the last of the culprits, dies, and Gallagher saves himself and Eve by jumping out of the cockpit of the already full machine. Then the plane sinks again in the sea.
Reviews
The lexicon of the international film wrote that the film was "in the representation of the psychological exceptional situation of the passengers according to the usual scheme", but "in the second part, the meticulous rescue measures, realistic and captivating".
Cinema magazine mocked that the film crashed like the plane shown.
Awards
The film was nominated for an Oscar in 1978 in the categories of Best Production Design and Best Costume Design .
backgrounds
The film was shot at Los Angeles International Airport , Hollywood Burbank Airport in Burbank ( California ) and Washington Dulles International Airport , in Miami and in San Diego . The underwater scenes were near Wakulla Springs ( Florida turned). In 2000, a remake was made under the title Abgetaucht - Flight 747 in fear of death . The plot was rewritten to an action film and some scenes were taken over. The subject of the sunken jumbo jet was also discussed in various television series. In the following flight no. 93 is missing in the action series Airwolf , the same airplane as in the film and scenes from it was used.
literature
- Michael Scheff, David Spector: Airport '77. Lost in the Bermuda Triangle. Goldmann, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-442-04691-2 , (novel).
Web links
- Lost in the Bermuda Triangle in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Lost in the Bermuda Triangle at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Lost in the Bermuda Triangle in the online film database
- Lost in the Bermuda Triangle in the German synchronous file
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for missing in the Bermuda Triangle . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2006 (PDF; test number: 49 063 DVD).
- ^ Lost in the Bermuda Triangle. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Cinema, accessed December 25, 2007
- ^ Filming locations for Airport '77, accessed December 25, 2007