Airplane!
Airplane titled Flying High in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Japan and the Philippines is a 1980 American parody film directed and written by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker and released by Paramount Pictures. It stars Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty and features Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Kareem AbdulJabbar, and Lorna Patterson. The film is a parody of the disaster film genre, particularly the 1957 Paramount film Zero Hour, from which it borrows the plot and the central characters, as well as many elements from Airport 1975. The film is known for its use of surreal humor and its fastpaced slapstick comedy, including visual and verbal puns and gags.
Exfighter pilot and taxi driver Ted Striker Robert Hays became traumatized during an unnamed war, leading to a pathological fear of flying. As a result, he is unable to hold a responsible job. His wartime girlfriend, Elaine Dickinson Julie Hagerty, now a flight attendant, leaves him. Striker nervously boards a Boeing 707 Trans American Flight 209 from Los Angeles to Chicago on which she is serving, hoping to win her back, but she rebuffs him.After dinner is served, many of the passengers fall ill, and fellow passenger Dr. Rumack Leslie Nielsen deduces that the passengers have contracted food poisoning from the fish. The cockpit crew, including pilot Clarence Oveur Peter Graves and copilot Roger Murdock Kareem AbdulJabbar, have also been affected, leaving no one to fly the plane. Elaine contacts the Chicago control tower for help, and is instructed by tower supervisor Steve McCroskey Lloyd Bridges to activate the planes autopilot, a large inflatable pilot doll listed as Otto in the end credits, which will get them to Chicago, but will not be able to land the plane. Rumack convinces Ted to fly the plane, though Ted feels unable to handle the pressure and the unfamiliar aircraft. ........
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