Movie
Airplane!
Overview
An ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning.
Details
- Release date
- 1980-06-27
- Runtime
- 88 min
- Genres
- Comedy
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Paramount Pictures, Howard W. Koch Productions
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Robert Hays as Ted Striker
- Julie Hagerty as Elaine Dickinson
- Leslie Nielsen as Dr. Rumack
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as Roger Murdock
- Lloyd Bridges as Steve McCroskey
- Peter Graves as Capt. Clarence Oveur
- Robert Stack as Captain Rex Kramer
- Lorna Patterson as Randy
- Jill Whelan as Lisa Davis
- Ann Nelson as Hanging Lady
- Jim Abrahams as Religious Zealot #6
- Jonathan Banks as Gunderson
Crew
- Jerry Zucker - Director
- David Zucker - Director
- Jim Abrahams - Director
- Jim Abrahams - Writer
- David Zucker - Writer
- Jerry Zucker - Writer
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