1970 Answer: Airport
Universal Pictures
Coming in No. 2 just behind the top-grossing film of 1970s, Love Story, Airport followed a formula that The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno, and other 1970s disaster movies would follow: Take a bunch of A-list stars, put them in peril, and watch the sparks fly.
Burt Lancaster once dismissed Airport as “the biggest piece of junk ever made,” but it inspired three sequels and was later satirized, of course, by 1980’s Airplane.
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