Charles Quinlivan, Dana Andrews, Geoffrey Toone

A routine flight turns into a major emergency as passengers and crew succumb to food poisoning - is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane? If that sounds vaguely familiar, it's because 'A...( read more  read more... )irplane' was a send-up of this forerunner of the 1970s disaster movie..

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Directed by: Hall Bartlett

Release Date: November 13, 1957

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DVD Release Date: June 26, 2007

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  • July 23, 2007
    A non-comedic version of and basis for Airplane! If you've seen Airplane! you'll laugh, but at the same time it's so campy you just may laugh anyway. Especially when Sterling Hayden says "looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking."
  • September 7, 2008
    One of the first so called disaster movies centers around a plane full of passengers sick from food poisoning and a old army pilot named Ted Striker who is asked to bring it down safely but theres just a few problems bad weather and Ted has flashbacks from the war. if anyone has ...( read more)heard this plot before its cause this is the orignal movie that *Airplane* spoofed a bunch of years later except this isnt played for laughs not a great movie but not horrible either pretty decent amount of suspense yet overdramatic like most 50's movies.
  • August 13, 2007
    If you have seen Airplane you have to see this one, it is not a comedy but it parallels Airplane throughout.
  • July 28, 2007
    Part of the WB Cult Camp Classics DVD series, this was not originally a campy film. However, if the name Ted Striker means anything to you, or lines like "Dump every light you've got on the runaway" or "I guess I picked the wrong week to quit smoking" or "Joey, have you ever bee...( read more)n in a cockpit before?" then you'll derive some twisted pleasure out of this film - the inspiration for "Airplane!" Make your dining choice - meat or fish - sit back and enjoy this flight.

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