Throughout the 1970s, there were plenty of great movies that had all-star casts, including The Godfather Part II and Murder ...

This precursor to later "epic" 1970s disaster films presents 12 hours in the lives of the personnel and passengers at the "Lincoln Airport." Endless problems, professional and personal ...

and Cohen hoped that visual effects would transcend the genre of the 1970s disaster films. Also noteworthy, they used 2,000 rats in the film, built three different tunnels to display the effects ...

If that sounds vaguely familiar, it's because 'Airplane' was a send-up of this forerunner of the 1970s disaster movie..