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Airplane! (alternatively titled Flying High! ) [ 5 ] is a 1980 American disaster comedy film written and directed by Jim Abrahams and brothers David and Jerry Zucker in their directorial debut , [ 6 ] and produced by Jon Davison .
The new book “Surely You Can’t Be Serious: The True Story of ‘Airplane!,’” on sale Oct. 3, is an in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at how the iconic 1980 movie was made.
The pages also are peppered with fun facts about David Letterman's audition for the Ted Striker role (Robert Hays got the part) and Nielsen's use of a fart machine to keep things light on the set.
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.
In 1980, the highly successful parody film Airplane! was released, [35] [36] [37] drawing on elements of Zero Hour! and the Airport film series. This was itself followed by a sequel, Airplane II: The Sequel, in 1982. [38] Directors have gone to great lengths to make plane crash scenes appear realistic.
The plot to bring down the Concorde in the second act of the film was very similar to the Turkish Airlines Flight 981 accident six years earlier, in that an explosive decompression (and subsequent loss of control) was caused by the cargo hold door blowing off in flight, although it is not known if this was coincidence, or indeed the writers ...
Arthur Frederick Hailey, AE (5 April 1920 – 24 November 2004) was a British/Canadian novelist whose plot-driven storylines were set against the backdrops of various industries. His books, which include such best sellers as Hotel (1965), Airport (1968), Wheels (1971), The Moneychangers (1975), and Overload (1979), have sold 170 million copies ...
The bombing plot is almost foiled with the assistance of an elderly lady, Ada Quonsett, a habitual stowaway, whose help is enlisted by the flight crew, but another meddling passenger defeats the crew's efforts. Vernon Demerest is a pompous and self-confident senior pilot for Trans America Airlines and brother-in-law to Bakersfeld. He opposes ...