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Director:
Writers:
Arthur Hailey (teleplay "Flight Into Danger")
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Release Date:
13 November 1957 (USA) more
Genre:
Tagline:
It Builds to the Tensest 50 Minutes in the History of the Screen!
Plot:
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... more | add synopsis
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The actual movie that is spoofed by "Airplane!" more (24 total)

Cast

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Dana Andrews ... Lt. Ted Stryker
Linda Darnell ... Ellen Stryker
Sterling Hayden ... Captain Martin Treleaven
Elroy 'Crazylegs' Hirsch ... Capt. Bill Wilson, Pilot
Geoffrey Toone ... Dr. Baird

Jerry Paris ... Tony Decker
Peggy King ... Stewardess Janet Turner
Charles Quinlivan ... Harry Burdick

Patricia Tiernan ... Mrs. Joan Wilson (as Carole Eden)

Steve London ... First Officer Walt Stewart
Jo Ann Wade ... Treleaven's Baby Sitter
Raymond Ferrell ... Joey Stryker
John Ashley ... TV Singer
Willis Bouchey ... British Army Doctor
Robert Stevenson ... Air Traffic Controller
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Additional Details

Runtime:
81 min
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Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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Fun Stuff

Goofs:
Continuity: At the end when the plane crash lands, the landing gear come out from under the plane and the nose gear breaks. A later scene shows the plane skidding with no gear under it and all propellers severely damaged. In last scene of plane skidding to a stop, the propellers are at first intact and then damaged again. The nose gear is back and breaks again and the broken right landing gear is back under the wing. more
Quotes:
Treleaven: I guess I picked the wrong week to give up smoking. more
Movie Connections:
Remade as Airplane! (1980) more

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The actual movie that is spoofed by "Airplane!", 2 January 2005
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Author: michael-784 from United States

Ignore reader comments that say that the movie "Airplane!" by Abrahams, Zucker and Zucker is a "rip-off" of "Zero Hour." Airplane was a SPOOF of Zero Hour - not a rip-off. One would think "Airplane!" was a spoof on "Airport" - and in a way it was, but watch "Zero Hour" and you'll see their real inspiration.

If watch Airplane first, then Zero Hour, you'll find Zero Hour to be a very (unintentionally) funny COMEDY! The AIRPLANE writers even pulled one ridiculous line from Zero Hour, untouched: "The life of everybody on board depends on one thing. Finding somebody on board who not only can fly the plane, but didn't have fish for dinner."

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