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Zero Hour! is a 1957 American drama film directed by Hall Bartlett from a screenplay by Bartlett, Arthur Hailey, and John Champion.It stars Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, and Sterling Hayden and features Peggy King, Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch, Geoffrey Toone, and Jerry Paris in supporting roles.
The 1980 comedy Airplane!, though more specifically a parody of the 1957 film Zero Hour! (itself a precursor to the Airport concept, with a screenplay by Hailey), was marketed as a spoof of the Airport series. It spawned its own follow-up, Airplane II: The Sequel, in 1982.
It is a parody of the disaster film genre, particularly the 1957 Paramount film Zero Hour!, from which it borrows the plot, central characters, and some dialogue. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] It also draws many elements from Airport 1975 and other films in the Airport series .
If we had you at “surely,” you’re part of the generation whose sense of humor was warped, er, shaped by “Airplane!,” the 1980 disaster movie parody that has become a classic and was a ...
Title Director Cast Genre Notes Calypso Heat Wave: Fred F. Sears: Johnny Desmond, Merry Anders, Meg Myles: Musical: Columbia: The Careless Years: Arthur Hiller: Dean Stockwell, Natalie Trundy, John Larch
Airplane! (1980), a successful parody film that blended elements of an already well-established airline disaster film genre, including plot points inspired by Airport '75 as well as Zero Hour! Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land, a 1983 ABC television movie, starring Lee Majors.
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Jerry Gordon Zucker (born March 11, 1950) is an American film producer, director, and writer known for his role in directing comedy spoof films such as Airplane! and Top Secret!, and the Best Picture-nominated supernatural drama film Ghost. [1] He and his older brother, David Zucker, collaborated on several films.