Airplane Collection

Robert Hays

Julie Hagerty

Leslie Nielsen

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Lloyd Bridges

Peter Graves

Lorna Patterson

Robert Stack

Jim Abrahams

Jonathan Banks

Stephen Stucker

Frank Ashmore

Craig Berenson

Barbara Billingsley

Lee Bryant

Joyce Bulifant

Mae E. Campbell

Ethel Merman

Jimmie Walker

Jill Whelan

Nora Meerbaum

Kenneth Tobey

James Hong

Michelle Stacy

David Leisure

Ann Nelson

Al White

Nicholas Pryor

Cyril O'Reilly

Ted Chapman

Jesse Emmett

Norman Alexander Gibbs

Amy Gibson

Marcy Goldman

Bob Gorman

Rossie Harris

Maurice Hill

David Hollander

Howard Honig

Gregory Itzin

Howard Jarvis

Michael Laurence

Zachary Lewis

Barbara Mallory

Maureen McGovern

Mary Mercier

Len Mooy

Laura Nix

John O'Leary

Bill Porter

Conrad E. Palmisano

Mallory Sandler

Robert Starr

Barbara Stuart

Lee Terri

William Tregoe

Hatsuo Uda

Herb Voland

John David Wilder

Windy

Jason Wingreen

Louise Yaffe

Charlotte Zucker

David Zucker

Jerry Zucker

Kitten Natividad

Larry Blake

Paula Moody

Sandra Lee Gimpel

Henry Wills

Joyce Mandel

Gene LeBell

Susan Breslau

Jon Davison

Elmer Bernstein

Joseph F. Biroc

Joel Thurm

Ward Preston

Anne D. McCulley

Rosanna Norton

Edwin Butterworth

Joan Phillips

Maurice Vaccarino

Mike Higelmire

Clancy T. Troutman

Jeff Carson

John Frazier

Robert Blalack

Hunt Lowry

Kenneth D. Collins

Arne Schmidt

Jeff Clark

Tom Crowl

Wally Graham

Joseph E. Hubbard

Steven M. Levine

David E. Campbell

David J. Hudson

Dennis Jones

Tom Overton

John T. Reitz

James Troutman

Max W. Anderson

Chris Casady

Bill Hedge

Jamie Shourt

Leigh Walsh

C.D. Smith

Jamie Anderson

Brink Brydon

Jerry Deats

Bill Decker

William E. Fitch

Larry Gilhooly

M. Todd Henry

Norman Lang

John Monte

Nick Papanickolas

Frederic J. Smith

Edmond Wright

Susan Arnold

Wallis Nicita

Gretchen Rennell

Aggie Lyon

Victoria Snow

Scott K. Wallace

Kathy Durning

David Spear

Nancy Hansen

Adam Culunga

Tom Mahoney

Sam Mattingly

Huey Redwine

Art Sarno

J.L. Mitchell

Dick Webb

Pat Proft

Rob Bottin

Bob Stein

Janet Brady

Leslie Hoffman

Bruce Paul Barbour

Roger Creed

Chuck Hayward

David LeBell

Diane Peterson

Nick Palmisano

Dar Robinson

Rick Seaman

Russell Saunders

Greg Walker

Jesse Wayne

Patrick Kennedy

Debbie Evans

Paula Dell

Dan Perri

Peter Kuran

Mary Peters

Comedy

Airplane!

Paramount Pictures

Howard W. Koch Productions

United States of America

An American Comedy _**Classic**_ - Everything about this film screams 'American Cinema Comedy'. A lot of the humor is a precursor to modern american humor, including the terribly cheesy pulp humor. This film is an homage to the comedies that came before it, but is innovative in its combination of wordplay and referential humor. I see vestiges of this film in everything from 'The Hangover' to 'The Office'. 

If at any point you are watching this and find yourself saying 'This is really stupid', just remember: Relax. It's supposed to be stupid.

CinemaSerf

Right from the "Jaws" (1975) inspired opening titles, this is a treat of comedy that sends up just about every genre of cinema as poor old "Ted" (Robert Hays) has to stave off an airborne disaster aboard his aircraft. Half the folks travelling have been stricken with food poisoning and when the cockpit it wiped-out, it falls to him to bravely take the joystick and try to land in Chicago. Luckily, his ex-girlfriend "Elaine" (Julie Hagerty) is there, as is the always scene stealing inflatable "Otto" pilot. Lloyd Bridges is entertaining as the air traffic controller as is Robert Stack as the man trying to to talk down the stressed wartime pilot whom he used to command. The visual jokes are occasionally a bit too slapstick, but it's the writing that makes this funny - it is a pun writer's wet dream with plenty of risqué double entendres and literal interpretation of language that creates ample enjoyable ambiguity and humour. Clearance Clarence and Roger, Roger - it's quickly paced and unlike so many comedies from the 1970s really does raise a smile 40-odd years later when political correctness would probably throttle this at birth. Yes, it's a bit puerile but it is still well worth a watch.

Surely, this is hilarious.
Surely.
A film that never saw the word "Surely" in the same light again.
This is a total parody, not just of disaster movies, but of all social mores. The "excuse" for the comedy is a plane where the entire flight crew is too sick to fly, so a nerve racked ex pilot needs to fly the plane.
Lots of Monty Python style "unreal" events to make this even funnier, along with the parody of culture, such as the woman who speaks "Jive". You need someone to interpret "Jive" in life or death situations, you know?
The people who don't find this funny probably don't even like gladiator movies.

Filipe Manuel Neto

**A memorable comedy that deserves to be revisited occasionally.**

I can't say how innovative this film was in its time because I'm not one of those cinema experts who know almost everything (I'd like to know more, and I always learn more, but I'm reduced to the insignificance of knowing little). However, as far as I can understand, I think it was one of the first nonsense American satires, heavily inspired by Monty Python, an English group that was having its biggest successes at that time, and the film “National Lampoon Animal House”, which had also been released at this time.

For this work, Jim Abrahams and the Zucker brothers (who direct and write all the script) made a hilarious story around a domestic flight in the USA that goes very wrong when almost everyone, including the pilot and co-pilot, eat a spoiled fish. There are some jokes that work better, others worse, but the film's humor is intelligent enough to escape the easy laugh label. The joke where the pilot tries to seduce a child is perhaps the most infamous moment in the film, but I'm not a huge fan of political correctness and I handled it very well. The writers also can't resist the temptation to include some sex jokes, but I didn't see anything that I really think crossed the line of what was acceptable.

For the film, they're called actors with a notable satirical and humorous streak, but who had not always had the opportunity to focus on comedies, or had not made films before. This was the case with Peter Graves, Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty or Lloyd Bridges, but also with Leslie Nielsen. It's quite surprising, considering we remember him for his comedies, but he hadn't done any notable comedies before this film. The cast seems to be having so much fun working that I believe the entire group has great memories of the project. As a technical and aesthetic work, the film stands out for the quality of the cinematography and filming work, but also for the good props and effects achieved.

English

Airplane! (1980) Original Trailer [FHD]

Airplane! - Trailer