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Title: Airplane! (1980)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | ... | Roger Murdock (as Kareem Abdul-Jabaar) | |
| Lloyd Bridges | ... | Steve McCroskey | |
| Peter Graves | ... | Captain Clarence Oveur | |
| Julie Hagerty | ... | Elaine Dickinson | |
| Robert Hays | ... | Ted Striker | |
| Leslie Nielsen | ... | Dr. Rumack | |
| Lorna Patterson | ... | Randy | |
| Robert Stack | ... | Captain Rex Kramer | |
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Stephen Stucker | ... | Johnny Henshaw-Jacobs |
| Otto | ... | Otto | |
| Jim Abrahams | ... | Religious Zealot #6 | |
| Frank Ashmore | ... | Victor Basta | |
| Jonathan Banks | ... | Gunderson | |
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Craig Berenson | ... | Paul Carey |
| Barbara Billingsley | ... | Jive Lady | |
Drowning his sorrows after that botched mission during WWII, the traumatised former fighter pilot with a fear of flying, Ted Striker, still hasn't got over his old flame and flight attendant, Elaine Dickinson. Determined to win her back, Ted boards a domestic flight from Los Angeles to Chicago, only to come face-to-face with a severe case of in-flight food poisoning that is threatening everyone's lives. Now, with most of the passengers and the entire cockpit crew down with the food-borne illness, Striker has no other choice but to confront his inner demons and take over the control of the ungovernable aircraft with the help of a gruff air-traffic controller and his former commander. Can Ted land the plane and save them all? Written by Nick Riganas
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Still one of funniest spoof movies ever made, Airplane is one of the first and one of the best around.
Hot Shots, Loaded Weapon even Naked Gun have tried to follow in its footsteps, but they have failed to hit the mark. That's not to say that they are bad movies, just that its difficult to follow a movie of this calibre.
Spoof movies definitely have there place in everyone's collection, but this is probably the best you'll ever see in the genre, if you have never seen it and you fancy a laugh, I can't recommend a better film, even though it has dated; it's still hilarious 9/10