The film Airport contains everything an audience could want in two hours and fifteen minutes suspense, romance, drama, and comedy. ... I think the film did an excellent job of portraying the lives of the characters andthen showing the audience how these events effect the finale. ... It was among the top grossing films of 1970 bringing in seven digit box office numbers and giving birth to an entire film genre-the disaster movie. ... Airport spawned almost a decade's worth of big-budget disaster films, including three sequels. ...

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Built in 1922, the theater is a mishmash of architectural genres mixing an elaborate Spanish Colonial facade with interior murals and fixtures that draw on Asian, Arab, and Art Deco influences. ... The Wurlitzer harkens back to the Castro's origins as a silent movie house where films were accompanied by live music. ... Aside from laughing at the dialog, the film provides other pleasures, the chief one being that of seeing key San Francisco landmarks, War Memorial Opera House, Steinhart Aquarium, and others, as they looked forty years ago. ... He then takes the girl hostage but she free...

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