"watch as ""Otto"" takes control of the plane, inflates a female companion, and takes off. Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker (collectively known as Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker, or ZAZ), wrote ""Airplane!"" while they were performing with the Kentucky Fried Theatre, a small theatre they had founded in 1971. To obtain material for comedy routines, they routinely recorded late night television and reviewed the tapes later primarily to pull the commercials, a process Abrahams compared to ""seining for fish"". During one such taping process, they unintentionally recorded the 1957 film ""Zero Hour!"", and while scanning the commercials, found that"
"use of surreal humor and its fast-paced slapstick comedy, including visual and verbal puns, gags, and obscure humor. ""Airplane!"" was a critical and financial success, grossing over $83 million in North America against a budget of $3.5 million, being released by Paramount Pictures. The film's creators received the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Comedy, and nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and for the BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay. In the years since its release, the film's reputation has grown substantially. The film was ranked sixth on Bravo's ""100"
"films based on the six-episode television series ""Police Squad!"", in which he also starred and which was created and produced by the Abrahams–Zucker–Zucker team behind ""Airplane"". This also led to his casting, many years later, in Mel Brooks' """". Brooks had wanted to make that film for a long time, but put it off because, as he said, ""I just could not find the right Dracula."" Brooks said he had never seen ""Airplane!"" until years after its release. When he did, he knew Nielsen would be right for the part. When it was suggested that his role in ""Airplane!"" was"
"characters. Stack's role as the captain who loses his nerve in one of the earliest airline ""disaster"" films, ""The High and the Mighty"" (1954), is spoofed in ""Airplane!"", as is Lloyd Bridges' 1970–1971 television role as airport manager Jim Conrad in ""San Francisco International Airport"". Peter Graves was in the made-for-television film """", in which an SST was unable to land owing to an emergency. Nielsen saw a major boost to his career after ""Airplane!""s release, and the film marked a significant change in his film persona towards a new specialty in deadpan comedy, notably in the three ""Naked Gun"""
"for Sawa's performance. The film's success spawned a media franchise, encompassing four additional installments, as well as a series of novels and comic books. In May 2000, High school student Alex Browning boards Volée Airlines Flight 180 with his classmates for their senior trip to Paris. Before take-off, Alex has a premonition that the plane will explode in mid-air, killing everybody on board. When the events from his vision begin to occur in reality, he panics and a fight breaks out between Alex and his rival, Carter Horton. As a result, several passengers are removed from the plane, including Alex,"
"and included dialog and songs from the film. It was also narrated by Shadoe Stevens, and only featured one score track, the ""Love Theme from ""Airplane"""" composed by Elmer Bernstein. The soundtrack was altered for the European 'Flying High' release, with several of the featured tracks swapped for pieces original to the LP. On April 28, 2009 La-La Land Records announced that it would release the first official score album for ""Airplane!"", containing Bernstein's complete score. The soundtrack was released digitally on February 19, 2013, by Paramount Music. Before its release, the directors had been apprehensive, owing to a mediocre"
"1971, the film was remade as a made-for-television movie, ""Terror in the Sky"", a Movie of the Week special with Doug McClure in the title role. ""Zero Hour!"" was also used as the basis for the parody film ""Airplane!"" (1980). Because ""Zero Hour!"" was owned at the time by Paramount Pictures, the makers of ""Airplane!"", also a Paramount feature, were able to use the screenplay almost verbatim. Screenplay writer Hailey went on to write the popular 1968 novel, ""Airport"", which revisited the air disaster genre and led to a film franchise that was also spoofed by ""Airplane!"" and its own"
"Planes (film) Planes is a 2013 American 3D computer-animated sports comedy film produced by Disneytoon Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is a spin-off of Pixar's ""Cars"" franchise. Despite not being produced by Pixar, the film was co-written and executive produced by Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios' then-chief creative officer John Lasseter, who directed the first two ""Cars"" films. The film stars the voices of Dane Cook, Stacy Keach, Priyanka Chopra in her Hollywood debut, Brad Garrett, Teri Hatcher, Danny Mann, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Roger Craig Smith, John Cleese, Carlos Alazraqui, Val Kilmer, and Anthony Edwards. Like many"
"response at one of the pre-screenings. But the film earned its entire budget of about $3.5 million in its first weekend of release. Overall, it earned more than $83 million in box office gross for $40 million in rentals, making it the fourth highest-grossing film of 1980. ""Airplane!"" received universal acclaim from critics and is widely regarded as one of the best films of 1980. Based on 61 reviews, compiled retrospectively, Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 97% with an average rating of 8.4/10. The site's critical consensus reads, ""Though unabashedly juvenile and silly, ""Airplane!"" is nevertheless"
"by critics in mainstream media, ""Panic in the Skies"" did garner some interest from internet bloggers and other film critics. Film reviewer Sergio Ortega noted the ""unfortunately bad movie ..."", was filled with continuity and ""unbelievable"" aerial errors on the Boeing 747. Panic in the Skies! Panic in the Skies! is a television film directed by Paul Ziller premiering on The Family Channel in 1996. The film stars Kate Jackson, Ed Marinaro and Erik Estrada. During takeoff for a flight to Europe, Flight 115, a Royce Air International Boeing 747 flying from New York to London is struck by lightning."
"Swarm"" (1978), ""Meteor"" (1979), ""Hurricane"" (1979), ""The Concorde ... Airport '79"" (1979), ""Beyond the Poseidon Adventure"" (1979) and ""When Time Ran Out..."" (1980) performed poorly at the box office signaling declining interest in the disaster film product. Although ""The Big Bus"" (1976), an earlier disaster film spoof, had failed to be a hit, the end of the trend was marked by the 1980 comedy ""Airplane!"" which fondly spoofed the clichés of the genre to surprising box office success, producing a sequel of its own, """", in 1982. The resurgence of big budget productions of the genre aided by advancements in"
"""Airplane!"" as number ten on its list of the 100 funniest American films. In the same year, readers of ""Total Film"" voted it the second greatest comedy film of all time. It also came second in the British 50 Greatest Comedy Films poll on Channel 4, beaten by ""Monty Python's The Life of Brian"". ""Entertainment Weekly"" voted the film the ""Funniest movie on video"" in their list of the 100 funniest movies on video. Several actors were cast to spoof their established images: prior to their roles in ""Airplane!"", Nielsen, Stack, and Bridges were known for portraying adventurous, no-nonsense tough-guy"
"The 1980 comedy film ""Airplane!"", though more specifically a remake-cum-spoof of the 1957 film ""Zero Hour!"" (itself a precursor to the ""Airport"" concept with a screenplay by Arthur Hailey), is often identified as a spoof of the ""Airport"" series. It spawned its own follow-up, """", in 1982. Airport (film series) Airport is a 1970s film series consisting of four airplane-themed disaster films that include ""Airport"", ""Airport 1975"", ""Airport '77"" and ""The Concorde ... Airport '79"". They are based on the novel ""Airport"" by Arthur Hailey. The only actor who appeared in all four films is George Kennedy in his recurring"
"opposite Robert Hays in the parody film, ""Airplane!"" It was released in June 1980 and became the third-highest grossing comedy in box office history at that time, behind ""Smokey and the Bandit"" (1977) and ""National Lampoon's Animal House"" (1978). ""Airplane!"" was considered the first of the modern parody genre and established Hagerty as a noted comedic actress. Hagerty spent the 1980s starring in a number of theatrical films, ranging from the well-reviewed Albert Brooks film ""Lost In America"" and Woody Allen's ""A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy"" to the badly received ""Beyond Therapy"". Her roles often involved a naive or spaced-out"
"Panic in the Skies! Panic in the Skies! is a television film directed by Paul Ziller premiering on The Family Channel in 1996. The film stars Kate Jackson, Ed Marinaro and Erik Estrada. During takeoff for a flight to Europe, Flight 115, a Royce Air International Boeing 747 flying from New York to London is struck by lightning. Although the flight continues, the lightning strike has killed the flight crew and disabled the radio communications to the ground. Laurie Ann Pickett (Kate Jackson), the senior flight attendant, enlists the aid of passenger Brett Young (Ed Marinaro), and together, they determine"
"Air Force (film) Air Force is a 1943 American World War II aviation film from Warner Bros., produced by Hal B. Wallis and Jack L. Warner, directed by Howard Hawks, starring John Garfield, John Ridgely, Gig Young, Arthur Kennedy, and Harry Carey. Made in the aftermath of the Pearl Harbor attack, it was one of the first of the patriotic films of the war, often characterized as a propaganda film. The story revolves around an actual incident that occurred on December 7, 1941. An aircrew is ferrying an unarmed Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber named the ""Mary-Ann"" across the"
"was again composed by Mark Mancina. Planes (film) Planes is a 2013 American 3D computer-animated sports comedy film produced by Disneytoon Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is a spin-off of Pixar's ""Cars"" franchise. Despite not being produced by Pixar, the film was co-written and executive produced by Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios' then-chief creative officer John Lasseter, who directed the first two ""Cars"" films. The film stars the voices of Dane Cook, Stacy Keach, Priyanka Chopra in her Hollywood debut, Brad Garrett, Teri Hatcher, Danny Mann, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Roger Craig Smith, John Cleese, Carlos Alazraqui, Val"
"in the United Kingdom judged it the second-greatest comedy film of all time. In 2012, ""Empire"" voted it number one in the 50 Funniest Comedies Ever poll. Critics praised the film, which also proved a long-term success with audiences. In 2010, ""Airplane!"" was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress. The directors cast Nielsen for his ability to play like ""a fish in water"", saying ""You could have cast funny people and done it with everybody winking, goofing off, and silly ... we wanted people to be oblivious to the comedy."" For Nielsen, ""Airplane!"""
"were directly copied from an ""M Squad"" episode. In fact, the pilot episode was an almost scene-for-scene remake of ""More Deadly,"" the opening episode of the second season of ""M Squad"". Pat Proft, who had worked with Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker on ""Airplane!"" and ""The Kentucky Fried Movie"", wrote the third episode. Robert Wuhl was invited to join the writing staff after he had auditioned for the lead role in ""Airplane!"". He co-wrote the show's second and sixth episodes with Tino Insana. Both episodes contained cultural references to old movies such as ""On the Waterfront"" and ""The French Connection"". In"
"its first season. He is also known for his supporting work in comedy films, such as ""You, Me and Dupree"" (2006), ""Hot Rod"" (2007), ""Superbad"" (2007), ""Forgetting Sarah Marshall"" (2008), ""Tropic Thunder"" (2008), """" (2009), ""Paul"" (2011), ""Men in Black 3"" (2012), and ""Maggie's Plan"" (2015). He has also had lead voice roles in ""Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs"" (2009), ""Inside Out"" (2015), and ""The Angry Birds Movie"" (2016) as well as lead roles in the dramedy ""The Skeleton Twins"" (2014) and the romantic comedy ""Trainwreck"" (2015). He has also voiced supporting characters in Pixar films, including ""Monsters University"""
"and the 1970s. Although his notable performances in the films ""Forbidden Planet"" and ""The Poseidon Adventure"" gave him standing as a serious actor, Nielsen later gained enduring recognition for his deadpan comedy roles during the 1980s, after being cast against type for the Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker comedy film ""Airplane!"". In his comedy roles, Nielsen specialized in portraying characters oblivious to and complicit in their absurd surroundings. Nielsen's performance in ""Airplane!"" marked his turning point, which made him ""the Olivier of spoofs"" according to film critic Roger Ebert, and leading to further success in the genre with ""The Naked Gun"""
"won the Golden Spire Award at the 1996 San Francisco Film Festival. The title is a reference to the 1980 comedy film ""Airplane!"" Airplaneski! Airplaneski! is a British 1995 Channel 4 72 minute documentary directed by Norman Hull, concerning the state of Russian civil aviation after the break-up of the Soviet Union and the subsequent division of Aeroflot into several hundred minor airlines. It contains interviews with Aeroflot pilots and crew, and with Western passengers who give accounts of comical or unusual events they have encountered on their travels. The documentary was screened on the 13th of July 1995, as"
"the plane. The film began as a spec script written by Reddick for an episode of ""The X-Files"", in order for Reddick to get a TV agent. A colleague at New Line Cinema persuaded Reddick to write it as a feature-length film. Later, Wong and Morgan, ""The X-Files"" writing partners, became interested in the script and agreed to rewrite and direct the film, marking Wong's film directing debut. Filming took place in New York City and Vancouver, with additional scenes filmed in Toronto and San Francisco. It was released on March 17, 2000, and became a financial success, making $10"
"the doctor ordered"". In 2008 ""Airplane!"" was selected by ""Empire"" magazine as one of ""The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time"". It was also placed on a similar list by ""The New York Times"", a list of ""The Best 1000 Movies Ever Made"". MaximOnline.com named the airplane crash in ""Airplane!"" number four on its list of ""Most Horrific Movie Plane Crashes."" Leslie Nielsen's line (in response to Hays' question 'surely you can't be serious'), ""I am serious. And don't call me Shirley"", was 79th on AFI's list of the best 100 movie quotes. In 2000 the American Film Institute listed"
"(played by Lee). In 1980, he played co-pilot Roger Murdock in ""Airplane!"". Abdul-Jabbar has a scene in which a little boy looks at him and remarks that he is in fact Abdul-Jabbar—spoofing the appearance of football star Elroy ""Crazylegs"" Hirsch as an airplane pilot in the 1957 drama that served as the inspiration for ""Airplane!"", ""Zero Hour!"". Staying in character, Abdul-Jabbar states that he is merely Roger Murdock, an airline co-pilot, but the boy continues to insist that Abdul-Jabbar is ""the greatest"", but that, according to his father, he doesn't ""work hard on defense"" and ""never really tries, except during"
"both become seriously ill from food poisoning. A man who has not flown for 10 years and has no familiarity with large aircraft is given instructions from the airport and safely lands the plane. The 1980 comedy film ""Airplane!"" spoofs the same plot with a passenger on a jet airliner being talked down to a safe landing after both pilots contract food poisoning. ""Airport 1975"" released in 1974 has a plot where a Boeing 747 has a mid-air collision with a small plane that leaves the crew dead or badly injured and a stewardess is instructed to fly the aircraft"
"average reviews"". Airplane II: The Sequel Airplane II: The Sequel (titled Flying High II: The Sequel in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Japan, and the Philippines) is a 1982 American parody film. It is the sequel to the 1980 film ""Airplane!"". Released on December 10, 1982, the film was written and directed by Ken Finkleman and stars Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, Chad Everett, William Shatner, Rip Torn, and Sonny Bono. The team who wrote and directed the original ""Airplane!"" (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker) had no involvement with this sequel. Paramount, having faced a similar situation"
"""Airplane!"" (1980). Both ""Allegiant"" and the film adaptation set the Bureau of Genetic Welfare's headquarters at O'Hare. In the novel, it is stated that the agency stripped equipment from the city and refurbished the terminals into offices, laboratories, and other facilities. A hotel connected to the airport was converted into housing for the members of the bureau. Aircraft are stationed for surveillance and observation purposes. The film version has a futuristic facility built on the ruins of the old airport. Bullfrogs are launched from hangars mounted on the facility, and the rest of the airport's facilities are clearly seen to"
"against type, Nielsen protested that he had ""always been cast against type before"", and that comedy was what he always really wanted to do. The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: Peter Farrelly said of the film: ""I was in Rhode Island the first time I saw ""Airplane!"" Seeing it for the first time was like going to a great rock concert, like seeing Led Zeppelin or the Talking Heads. We didn't realize until later that what we'd seen was a very specific kind of comedy that we now call the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker school."" Farrelly, along with"
"airplane. It proceeds with the phases of her life and the kind of laughter she brings among her friends and family. She fights for another girl who is molested by a group of men on the street and rescues her, whilst on-lookers do nothing about it. The song finishes with her fulfilling her ambition of becoming an air force pilot. Sony Music Entertainment had exclusively partnered with Fever FM as the radio partner, Nokia digital download store and MTV Indies as their music channel partner. The album was unveiled by Bollywood actor Salman Khan on 27 February 2014 at a"
"Al White Allen ""Al"" White (born May 17, 1942) is an American character actor. He has appeared in various movies, such as ""Airplane!"" and """", and ""Back to the Future Part II"". Over the course of his Hollywood acting career, White has frequently portrayed police detectives in television and film. On screen, White is perhaps best known for his role in hit comedy ""Airplane!"" as the jive-talking man whose words have to be translated (he reprised the jive-talking for a courtroom scene in the sequel). He also acted in ""Back to the Future Part II"" and has a long television"
"Airplane II: The Sequel Airplane II: The Sequel (titled Flying High II: The Sequel in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Japan, and the Philippines) is a 1982 American parody film. It is the sequel to the 1980 film ""Airplane!"". Released on December 10, 1982, the film was written and directed by Ken Finkleman and stars Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, Chad Everett, William Shatner, Rip Torn, and Sonny Bono. The team who wrote and directed the original ""Airplane!"" (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker) had no involvement with this sequel. Paramount, having faced a similar situation with ""Grease"
"Kareem Abdul-Jabbar reprising their roles from the film. Kareem makes the comment ""Why did I ever leave this place?"" referring to his time playing for the Milwaukee Bucks. Hays also reprises his role as an airline pilot in """". """", first released on December 10, 1982, attempted to tackle the science fiction film genre, though there was still emphasis on the general theme of disaster films. Although most of the cast reunited for the sequel, the writers and directors of ""Airplane!"" chose not to be involved. In the DVD commentary for ""Airplane!"" David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker claim"