capt . gallagher ( lemmon ) and flight attendant eve clayton ( vaccaro ) be a supposedly hot item in this death trip while a luxury 747 airliner deck out to look like a nightclub slash hotel there even a blind piano player who fall in love . karen wallace ( grant ) be the hysterical b . $ 3 and who will do anything to get attention from henpecked husband martin ( christopher lee ) and and later and the rest of the people on board . memorable moment represent boeing 747 do a belly flop in the atlantic ocean and karen get her chop bust when she go too far and and furniture ( and scream people ) who become ball bearing in a sinking pinball machine . the action and rescue sequence here be relatively phenomenal and but not much go on in between . hitchcock be suppose to have direct this sequel and but i forget the reason why not he would have do wonder for the 1970 original and on which this sequel be partly inspire ( 77 also get inspiration from ` the flight of the phoenix ) . actor cotten and de havilland reunite from their day on ` hush and hush and sweet charlotte ( apparently here they be not play heavy and just reunite autumn year lover ) . and isn not the actress play emily companion the same one who play the hammer to death maid on ` whatever happen to baby jane . tv actor include the girlfriend from ` mayberry rfd ( her character daughter win a draw contest and or something lame like that ) and ` buck rogers gil gerard and ` dynasty pamela bellwood .