A routine flight turns into a major emergency as passengers and crew succumb to food poisoning - is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane? If that sounds vaguely familiar, it's...
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Director:
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Stars:
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Ralph Meeker
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Director:
John Farrow
Stars:
Robert Mitchum,
Claude Rains,
Faith Domergue
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A routine flight turns into a major emergency as passengers and crew succumb to food poisoning - is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane? If that sounds vaguely familiar, it's because 'Airplane' was a send-up of this forerunner of the 1970s disaster movie.. Written by
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Although the DC-4 does have windshield wipers, they would not be running constantly during normal flight as shown in the movie. They are primarily only run on the ground. See more »
Quotes
Lt. Ted Stryker:
[enters the cockpit]
Oh doctor, the stewardess said...
[Stryker sees the pilot and co-pilot seats empty and the plane on automatic pilot]
Lt. Ted Stryker:
BOTH pilots?
Dr. Baird:
Can you fly this airplane and land it?
Lt. Ted Stryker:
Not a chance!
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I defy anyone to watch this film on its own terms. You sit down in front of the TV with the best will in the world, and then Crazylegs Hirsch asks the little boy if he's ever been in a cockpit before, and suddenly you're rolling on the floor.
What's amazing is how many of the jokes in *Airplane* work even though they parody specific moments in this movie (which fairly few people had seen).
"How about some coffee, Johnny?" "Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking." "He's a menace to himself and everything else in the air!" "Stewardess? I think the man sitting next to me is a doctor." "It's a different kind of flying altogether."
I do wonder why they dropped the Jerry Paris character, who seems like he would have been a rich subject for parody.
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I defy anyone to watch this film on its own terms. You sit down in front of the TV with the best will in the world, and then Crazylegs Hirsch asks the little boy if he's ever been in a cockpit before, and suddenly you're rolling on the floor.
What's amazing is how many of the jokes in *Airplane* work even though they parody specific moments in this movie (which fairly few people had seen).
"How about some coffee, Johnny?" "Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking." "He's a menace to himself and everything else in the air!" "Stewardess? I think the man sitting next to me is a doctor." "It's a different kind of flying altogether."
I do wonder why they dropped the Jerry Paris character, who seems like he would have been a rich subject for parody.