Tuesday, August 30, 2011
There 4 emergency exits on this aircraft
"Zero Hour" (1957) was just recently on cable. It is one of the main films that "Airplane"(1980) parodies. Other influences on "Airplane" were of course the "Airport" disaster pictures of the 1970's, but "Zero Hour" seems to be the model. As a matter of fact, the hero is a former WWII fighter pilot named Stryker and the flight crew gets food poisoning. If you can quote lines from "Airplane" then this is the picture for you. Sterling Hayden, most famous for playing General Jack Ripper in "Dr. Strangelove", plays the hardcore traffic tower man that has to talk the plane down. You'll want to play both films simultaneously to compare Hayden and Robert Stack. Highly recommended.
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