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13 November 1957 (USA)
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It Builds to the Tensest 50 Minutes in the History of the Screen!
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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...
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The actual movie that is spoofed by "Airplane!"
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | 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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81 min
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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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.
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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."