Airplane!
Comedy, 1980
The persons and events in this film are fictitious - fortunately! A masterpiece of off-the-wall comedy, Airplane! features Robert Hays as an ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning; Julie Hagerty as his girlfriend/stewardess/co-pilot; and a cast of all-stars including Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Leslie Nielsen, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar... and more. Their hilarious high jinks spoof airplane disaster flicks, religious zealots, television commercials, romantic love... the list whirls by in rapid succession. And the story races from one moment of zany fun to the next.
Top cast:
Robert Hays
Ted Striker
Julie Hagerty
Elaine Dickinson
Leslie Nielsen
Dr. Rumack
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Roger Murdock
Lloyd Bridges
Steve McCroskey
Peter Graves
Captain Clarence Oveur
Lorna Patterson
Randy
Robert Stack
Captain Rex Kramer
Jim Abrahams
Religious Zealot #6
Jonathan Banks
Gunderson
Stephen Stucker
Johnny Henshaw-Jacobs
Frank Ashmore
Victor Basta
Barbara Billingsley
Jive Lady
Lee Bryant
Mrs. Hammen
Ethel Merman
Lieutenant Hurwitz
Jimmie Walker
Windshield Wiper Man
Jill Whelan
Lisa Davis
Kenneth Tobey
Air Controller Neubauer
James Hong
Japanese General
Michelle Stacy
Young Girl with Coffee
David Leisure
First Krishna
Ann Nelson
Hanging Lady
Al White
Second Jive Dude
Nicholas Pryor
Mr. Hammen
Cyril O'Reilly
Soldier
Marcy Goldman
Mrs. Geline
David Hollander
Young Boy with Coffee
Gregory Itzin
Religious Zealot #1
Maureen McGovern
Nun
John O'Leary
Reporter #2
Conrad E. Palmisano
Religious Zealot #4
Robert Starr
Religious Zealot #5
Barbara Stuart
Mrs. Kramer
Herb Voland
Air Controller Macias
Jason Wingreen
Dr. Brody
Jerry Zucker
Ground Crewman #1
Kitten Natividad
Bouncy Topless Woman on Plane (uncredited)
