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I don't understand how you can take some fairly decent actors and make a film that a film student would be ashamed of doing. It had lines through it, as perhaps it was taken from someone's shelf, turned into a DVD with no clean up, and sold. Luckily my copy was with a 6 disc box of "Blood Chillers". Apparently they forgot to preview it before they added it to the collection. Who knows? Perhaps someone's relative was in it!! They story line itself was promising, but Robert Foxworth spent the entire movie overacting, Mark Slade was typecast as the "college boy" with no police skills AND who chewed gum even while eating his hot dog. What kind of Lieutenant on the police force has a hot dog?

That sums up this film...Foxworth being the severely overacted hot dog.

I am very generous to most movies. Hey, if I can get one good laugh or have only a moment of hesitation about the "climax" its okay by me. This movie, however, I actually was wishing Karen Black, who had the title female role, would blow out of the hole. And the nun Helen Reddy played, why in the world would she allow them to put a nun's habit on her which had a headpiece which continually was slipped down her forehead like a BAD Halloween costume! Even George Kennedy as the ever there, Joe Patrino, this time as the newly promoted head of some vague company, couldn't even get a decent "concerned" look on his face.

Of the four Airport franchise movies, I find this one as the big stinker. It is no wonder it is the one least shown on TV. Not even one handsome passenger to look at in this one! Even old Chuck Heston, in his bright yellow turtleneck, was all but a joke in this role.

How could so many talented people, well...a couple of talented people, even agree to be in this movie!

I liked this movie so much that it prompted me to take a trip to New Mexico and to eventually move there!! Unfortunately, due to medical problems, I was forced to come back to Kansas, but I will never regret moving to the Southwest.

Okay, so Nick Mancuso, who played Duran, sounded like he was from the Bronx occasionally and the tribes were renamed, but I purchased the VHS tape many years ago and check out every DVD web site hoping to find it there. It is probably the only reason I still have a VCR.++++++

The book was written by Martin Cruz Smith, an accomplished author, it was directed by Arthur Hiller, and the musical score done by Henry Mancini. Just how bad could it be?? If it is a horror movie you are looking for, this is not going to satisfy you. But a movie about the hardships and superstitions that still persist on the Navajo and Hopi reservations is as relevant as it was when Nightwing was made back in the 70s. I think that if the movie had not been billed as a "horror" flick, it would have gained much more of a following. I find it quite amusing that although it has never been made as a DVD, it is still found almost every other month on one of the pay movie channels. So I guess I'm not the only one who thinks that Nightwing is worth watching!