Eating lunch with Samjay at work, probably not a month goes by before one of us at least mentions the movie Airplane! It’s no secret that Airplane! is based on a 1957 movie called Zero Hour!. Somebody on YouTube has done a very nice job of making some shot-by-shot comparisons.
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What’s remarkable is there were only 23 years between Zero Hour! and Airplane!, but they’re worlds apart. It’s been thirty years since Airplane! and yet its irreverent, sarcastic, and subversive tone is still fresh and funny.
It’s common knowledge that “Airplane!” is a parody of “Zero Hour!” but I’ve never actually SEEN the latter, so I found myself laughing at Dana Clark and lovely Linda Darnell as if I were watching “Airplane!” for the first time.