Airplane!

Year Published: 1980

Creator: Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker

Credits: Cast: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen, Peter Graves, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Description: As a parody film, Airplane! tells its story intermixed between several cut-away scenes, comedic scenes, and visual and running gags. Ex-fighter pilot Ted Striker (Robert Hays) is a traumatized war veteran turned taxi driver. His wartime girlfriend, Elaine Dickinson, now a flight attendant, leaves him before boarding her assigned flight from Los Angeles to Chicago.

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