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It stars Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty and features Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Lorna Patterson. It is a parody of the disaster film genre, particularly the 1957 Paramount film Zero Hour!, from which it borrows its plot, central characters, and some dialogue.
Jul 2, 1980 · Airplane!: Directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker. With Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Julie Hagerty. After the crew becomes sick with food poisoning, a neurotic ex-fighter pilot must safely land a commercial airplane full of passengers.
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- Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
- 1980-07-02
Airplane! (1980) - Leslie Nielsen as Dr. Rumack - IMDb. Leslie Nielsen: Dr. Rumack. Showing all 36 items. Jump to: Photos (20) Quotes (16) Photos. Quotes. Rumack : You'd better tell the Captain we've got to land as soon as we can. This woman has to be gotten to a hospital. Elaine Dickinson : A hospital? What is it?
Airplane! (1980) Dr. Leslie Nielsen. Pets, Animals, Travel, Docs, & Rare Musical Stuff. 17.8K subscribers. Subscribed. 4.6K. 483K views 6 years ago. * More hilarious Airplane! movie clips here...
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Nielsen's performance in Airplane! marked his turning point, which made him "the Olivier of spoofs" according to film critic Roger Ebert, and leading to further success in the genre with The Naked Gun film series, based on the earlier short-lived television series Police Squad!, in which he also starred.
Nov 29, 2010 · NEW YORK (CBS) When Leslie Nielsen traded in his dramatic chops to star in comedies, he racked up a list of hilarious one-liners. Some of his most well-known (and often-quoted) lines came from...
“Airplane!” has two desperate people in the cockpit: Julie Hagerty, as the stewardess, and Robert Hays, as a former Air Force pilot whose traumatic war experiences have made him terrified of flying. (The cockpit also contains a very kinky automatic pilot … but never mind.)
