I watched this film in a packed cinema in London's West End when it was released. I have never experienced, before or since, an entire audience rendered completely helpless with laughter within the first ten minutes. We were laughing so hard that we couldn't keep up with the gags they were coming so fast. One of my favourite characters was 'Johnny' (played by Stephen Stucker) the camp worker in air traffic control. Airplane was a comic masterpiece and is still as funny to watch. RIP Jim Abrahams and thank you for brightening our lives.
Sounds amazing. I had a similar experience when I saw Dumb and Dumber at the cinema. Everyone laughing and we all missed half the film, never had that happen again.
It's a bit crazy how time and space work... I also watched this movie in London when it was released, although I have no idea where the theater was... I was ten years old. I still remember how ridiculously funny it seemed. Now over forty years later and less than a day but probably half a world apart we're here making comments on the same video.
Captain Steeeve on TH-cam who is a real airline pilot, said that he has hauled many celebrities, but the best was Leslie Nielsen. He said that before they took off, he was allowed to stick his head in the cockpit and said "Good Luck, we're all counting on you"
I’ve read that flight crews have sometimes asked Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to sit in the cockpit with them for takeoff, so they could say they flew with Roger Murdoch 😂
In 2006 or 2007 I was boarding a flight home from Montreal on the way home from a family vacation. While boarding the airplane I walked past Leslie Nelson sitting in first class. I did a double take and couldn’t believe this irony. The whole flight I could see the back of his head and thought of a million things I wanted to go say to him but I chickened out cause I’m sure he’s heard it all on an airplane . When I got home I checked the internet to see if there was anything current on him that I could maybe confirm that it was him and sure enough, he was in Montreal that weekend for some film awards. I’ll never forget that flight.
#21: As German audiences would have been completely unfamiliar with the concept of "Jive", the people in charge of making the German dubbed version had the absolutely glorious idea of letting the two black gentlemen speak Bavarian dialect, and a very rural version of it, too. And while it's nowadays entirely possible to find people of colour in Germany who are native speakers of Bavarian dialect, this was almost unthinkable back in 1980, making the scene even more hilarious than it could have been in the original English/Jive...
@@rockywatchesmovies th-cam.com/video/TEkI0cH_rK4/w-d-xo.html Mind you, the German subtitles are NO adequate translation of what they say in Bavarian! ;-)
I used to see Lloyd bridges at the Bear Valley Ski Resort in Northern CA, but was too afraid to confront him with: "Guess you picked the wrong time to quit sniffing glue."
I would love to have been in your shoes, I worked with celebrities training them getting physically fit for roles and I am used to being around them…. I would have walked right up and said it and would have improvised additional lines. I bet you would do it now…. Especially after the video? Right? Have a great day!!
You forgot the most hilarious spoof of something done in one of the "serious" movies: the sound of TURBOPROP engines during all the scenes of the clearly jet airline.
I was impressed with the serious actors who volunteered for this movie. My favourite was Robert Stack, best known for his role as Eliot Ness in The Untouchables TV series. Faces don't come any more serious, voices don't come more stern than his.
One of the greatest comedy movies of all time. You can watch it a dozen times and still find something you missed before. June Cleaver arguing in jive is classic!
The 2nd movie I brought my future wife to SO long ago. I remember laughing out loud when the airliner was first shown in flight to the sound of internal combustion engines. Rest of the audience silent as they didn't get the joke. Wife and I still trade lines from this great creation.
@@rockywatchesmoviesWe call them aeroplanes, so at the time (pre internet) the word ‘airplane’ wouldn’t have made sense. Also, the Australian title is a joke in of itself.
My tour guide in California was in this film, he played the turbaned man who tries to self immolate when Stryker tells him his life story! As a coach party we played a typically British trick and ignored all his attempts during our holiday to promote the film, which had just opened there. On the last day of travel we gave in collectively, and he appreciated the joke. We also promised to go to the cinema when it opened in Britain, and were not disappointed 😂😂😂
Easily one of my favorites and best comidies ever. Robert Hays was an excellent choice and I had no idea that Leslie Nielsen was not a comedic actor before this. Shows you his range.
So strange - I watched Airplane! A few days ago not knowing Jim had passed soon ago. RIP friend, thanks for giving us aviation nerds and dry comedy lovers something to REALLY enjoy. 🙏🕊️
Wow. I thought I knew ***EVERYTHING*** about this movie and even knew about several deleted scenes, such as: the burping contest at the water cooler; "Hi, Jack!", and the man in the yellow rain coat on a tricycle near the end. BUT, I never knew about Jose Feliciano being cast as a pilot - and I nearly called B.S. - until you included actual photos of the scene in the video. Fantastic research. It's not often I can be bested by these types of videos.
@@AndrewDyson-u2u Not that I'm aware of. Though I don't own the Blu-Ray, I wasn't aware ANY deleted scenes had been included in any home-video release yet! I've only known about them from the old TV version, or shows about deleted scenes in movies.
The Lines Peter Graves were supposed to say to Joey were much worse. Graves said he would never say such things like that to a child even if he was acting and would probably be ostracized by his friends and the industry if he did. So they had to tone it down a lot.
My pal was the first to get a VHS. About ten of us watched this in his gaff. We had to pause it a few times cos we were pissing ourselves so hard. Never gets old four decades later. What made it was the previouly very serious actors playing it as a drana.
In Australia Airplane was renamed Flying High , not sure why . Also when I went to see the awful Get Smart movie ‘ The Nude Bomb ‘ we got a surprise showing of Airplane months before it was released here in Australia. We had no idea what the movie was because this was before the internet. I guess the movie studio wanted to see if Australians would get the jokes. I can say that I have never been in a cinema with so much laughter for the entire movie . Eventually when it was released here it was a huge hit of course . But the fact that we got to see it without knowing anything about it was the best thing ever . It it still the best thing that has happened to me movie wise .
"I can say that I have never been in a cinema with so much laughter for the entire movie... " Totally; saw this with mum and dad at a now closed cinema in Exhibition street in Melbourne when I was 10. Biggest audience laughs I've heard to this day. Only Ghostbusters and Beverly Hills Cop years later came close.
You know, an Airplane III wouldn't be a bad idea right about now. I can't think of the last real "comedy" movie I watched. It's all super-heros and vampires right now.
Universal: Hey, you stole movie ideas from our 1970 Airplane films! JA: You mean the movie we redid from the 1950's that we own the rights to? Universal: Yeah, and that one stole from us too....
In Poland, there is a peculiar custom of translating movie titles in a way that they literally and thoroughly describe the movie's plot, often having nothing to do with the original title. Classic "translations" include "Szklana pułapka" (A Glass Trap) for "Die Hard" or "Elektroniczny morderca" (An Electronic Killer) for "The Terminator". For "Airplane", the wonderfully creative title became "Czy leci z nami pilot?" (Is There a Pilot on Board?), and the sequel was translated as "Spokojnie, to tylko awaria" (Relax, it's just a malfunction).
Awesome learned a lot about Airplane here. Didn't know it was Lloyd and Leslie's first comedic roll. Knrw it was a hit but hadn't realised it was such a huge hit!
Missed a lot of little cameos in this movie. The "Jive Lady" was Barbara Billingsly (Mrs. Cleaver from Leave It T=to Beaver), the sick little girl on the flight Lisa Davis (Jill Whelan, Capt. Stubing's daughter from The Love Boat) & the window washer (Jimmie "JJ" Walker from the TV show Good Times).
Airplane!" (1980) became "Flying High?" in Australia and New Zealand. Distributors in both Australia and New Zealand changed the title of this classic comedy from "Airplane!" to "Flying High" because they thought it would be too similar to another American movie released at the same time.4 Sept 2017
Found your channel a couple of days ago and it is refreshing to have someone give some facts about movies in an entertaining way and not sound like a robot. I have only ever subscribed to 1 other channel doing the same thing, so now I have 2 channels to watch.
Thanks, one correction: Leslie Neilson did comedy long before, as in an episode of Night Gallery, where he plays a parody of phantom of the opera, hilariously!! 😅
"Zero Hour" (1957) was based on the Telemovie "Flight Into Danger" (1956), written by Arthur Hailey of "Airport" fame. The Doug McLure movie, "Terror In The Sky" was also based off these. "Airport 75 confusingly released in 1974"?...."2001 A Space Odessy" was released in 1968...nobody was puzzled...A version of"1984" was released in 1956...not a raised eyebrow........"One Million Years B.C." was released in 1966....yeah, that was a bit wrong in more ways than one....
Thanks. Oops, I've just checked it out and yes, that is a mistake. I had Peter in the script, just a slip of tongue or I was imagining we were mates at the time 😂
I thought it was based on the novel Flight into Danger. We had to read in elementary school as a child in Canada. The plane was flying from back east to Vancouver for a Grey Cup game. The pilots got food poisoning from eating fish.
You missed something. When Ethel Merman is getting out of bed, the young lady sitting at the bedside is Yeardly Smith. The role is unaccredited by IMDB, but it is definitely her.
I saw the movie on Seattle when it first came out. I worked in aviation at the time. You could tell who was aviation by what jokes the audience laughed at. Like the fueling of the aircraft.
True story: In 1982 I was 8 yrs old. Inspired by the movie, I asked if I could go into the cockpit of the 747 we flew on. They allowed me to (after we landed). The stewardess brought me and my parents up to the cockpit. The Captain greets me and asks if I wanna sit in the Captain's chair. Absolutely! So he picks me up to place me in the seat and accidentally whacks my head against the overhead console. It didn't hurt, but the stewardess let's out a gasp, puts her hands up to her face and the poor Captain is apologizing like crazy, fussing over me making sure I'm ok, where I'm like "Yeah yeah yeah...what does this knob do? What does this lever do?" He goes on to apologize to my folks and they're laughing telling him if I was really hurt I'd be screaming my head off. 😅 (...and while I didn't get a toy plane, he gave me a little pair of brass wings I could pin on my shirt to let people know I was an honorary pilot)
One of the greatest comedies of all time. One thing about Leslie Nielsen was that this wasn't his first bit in comedy. He had appeared in an episode of M*A*S*H as a colonel who Hawkeye and Trapper drive nuts to get him relieved of his command. Also, the tube of "glue" that Llyod Bridges was sniffing was actually modelling putty (the gray tube used by Testors). Their glue had either an orange tube (regular) or blue (non-toxic). And Otto stole the show. He played himself according to the credits.
Don't feel too bad: I remember laughing my head off when I heard that sound of those WW2 bomber engines on every exterior shot of the model when I was originally watching it in the cinema; many of the people sat nearby to me were wondering what I was actually laughing at. I still think it's one of the funniest things in the entire movie, but even now, some people still don't notice it.
The directors wanted the airplane to be a prop just like the original movie but the producers were strict about wanting a jet. They refused to green light the movie unless it was a jet. The directors agreed but in the post production they had the editors change the jet noise to prop.
From the looks of the paint scheme, appeared to be an ex-TWA 707 (they altered it of course, but those two stripes at the bottom of the fuselage that got bigger going to the rear of the plane was a dead give away. Probably had recently been retired by TWA, as they had the 747 and L-1011 for long haul, and the 767 would be arriving shortly. Also, the 747 that crashed into the terminal in the beginning may have also been TWA or ex-TWA (My first time flying to L. A.(from NYC) was on a TWA 747. We did not crash into the terminal 😂(we did have to land at Kansas City for an engine problem. Left NYC ontime at Noon EST, finally got to LA around 9 PM PST, which was midnight EST 😩12 hours on a plane is a bit much, even on the Queen of the Skies)
Nothing new that I didn't already know from reading ZAZ's book "Surely You Can't Be Serious" (I forget the subtitle, but I don't want to get up our of my reclining sofa to check the book cover), which tells the whole story about how the movie came to be made - prefaced by the story of Kentucky Fried Movie (the theater production, and then the movie.) I recommend the book, if you want all the details.
Absolute Classic. Ahhh they fell for the classic pre-announce-a-sequal-in-the-credits curse. You don't do that unless you want it to be canceled. Buckaroo Bonzai did it too in 1984, where's that movie sequal?
People miss Ronald Reagan was a running gag throughout the movie. First reference was during boarding the boy has a US News and World Report magazine with election article headline, Later the ill lady mentions the last Ronald Reagan film they saw. Most do catch pilot Lt George Zipp is a play on Reagan's George Gipp and the Knute Rockney All American pep talk. Reagan did serve in the USAAF during WW2 but not a pilot. Incidentally, Knute Rockne died in an1931 plane crash (Transcontinental and Western Air).
My cousin had just came out to his parents about being gay A little while later my parents took me to see this movie When the scene where the topless woman runs across the screen came on I said "Oh Yea" my mom said "yes!"as she realized that I wasn't
The old guy waiting in the cab at the beginning of the movie was somebody by the name of Howard Jarvis. He was semi-famous in California at the time for creating "Proposition 13", which was a property tax measure (Jarvis- Gann) that passed the voters at that time.......how's that for a bit of "Airplane" trivia???
Little boy offers coffee to little girl... Little boy: Cream? Little girl: No thank you. I take it black, like my men. Seen this movie dozens of times and love it.
Was your intertitle at 02:40, being _“WHAT IFS?“,_ intentional? *IFS* is a *TLA* (Three-Letter Acronym) for _Instrument Flight Rules,_ a fundamental flying mode, especially for commercial aviation.
Check it blee, da bro was ooooon. DIdn't flip, but da folks was freakin' man, hey. Yo, blood hammered out trip sheee. Tightened that sucks side a runway like a mutha... sheeee.
Thanks for the info about "Zero Hour". When this movie came out I knew nothing about it until several of several of my friends came up to me and asked if I wrote the movie. I didn't understand what they meant until I saw the movie. As the movie progressed, the first time I had ever seen it, I knew exactly what the jokes would be and what dialog would be next. I almost could have written it. Love this movie, have seen it dozens of times. Well done.
I did enjoy the video (and gave it a Like, as I made it that far), but I have to offer one correction - Abrahams has three syllables. Abrams is a related but different name.
@@rockywatchesmovies Ok, fair enough, though I suspect it's a Steve Buscemi type situation where he's given up on other people pronouncing it the way he does and just doesn't bother to correct them.
I watched this film in a packed cinema in London's West End when it was released. I have never experienced, before or since, an entire audience rendered completely helpless with laughter within the first ten minutes. We were laughing so hard that we couldn't keep up with the gags they were coming so fast. One of my favourite characters was 'Johnny' (played by Stephen Stucker) the camp worker in air traffic control. Airplane was a comic masterpiece and is still as funny to watch. RIP Jim Abrahams and thank you for brightening our lives.
Sounds amazing. I had a similar experience when I saw Dumb and Dumber at the cinema. Everyone laughing and we all missed half the film, never had that happen again.
I used so take a cassette recorder into cinemas to record the audio, and kept the recording of Airplane. The audience laughing is hilarious.
It's a bit crazy how time and space work... I also watched this movie in London when it was released, although I have no idea where the theater was... I was ten years old. I still remember how ridiculously funny it seemed. Now over forty years later and less than a day but probably half a world apart we're here making comments on the same video.
I would’ve never guessed Brits would appreciate this kind of humor.
RIP Jim Abrahams. Thank you for making us all laugh at these silly, but funny, films
I didn't even know he passed😢
@@nyceflix Surely he can't be dead!
Yes, he's dead, and please don't call me Shirley!
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Captain Steeeve on TH-cam who is a real airline pilot, said that he has hauled many celebrities, but the best was Leslie Nielsen. He said that before they took off, he was allowed to stick his head in the cockpit and said "Good Luck, we're all counting on you"
❤❤❤❤❤😂🤣😂🤣😂
Love Captain Steeeve
I’ve read that flight crews have sometimes asked Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to sit in the cockpit with them for takeoff, so they could say they flew with Roger Murdoch 😂
In 2006 or 2007 I was boarding a flight home from Montreal on the way home from a family vacation. While boarding the airplane I walked past Leslie Nelson sitting in first class. I did a double take and couldn’t believe this irony. The whole flight I could see the back of his head and thought of a million things I wanted to go say to him but I chickened out cause I’m sure he’s heard it all on an airplane . When I got home I checked the internet to see if there was anything current on him that I could maybe confirm that it was him and sure enough, he was in Montreal that weekend for some film awards. I’ll never forget that flight.
#21: As German audiences would have been completely unfamiliar with the concept of "Jive", the people in charge of making the German dubbed version had the absolutely glorious idea of letting the two black gentlemen speak Bavarian dialect, and a very rural version of it, too. And while it's nowadays entirely possible to find people of colour in Germany who are native speakers of Bavarian dialect, this was almost unthinkable back in 1980, making the scene even more hilarious than it could have been in the original English/Jive...
That's great
@@rockywatchesmovies th-cam.com/video/TEkI0cH_rK4/w-d-xo.html Mind you, the German subtitles are NO adequate translation of what they say in Bavarian! ;-)
Thanks for sharing!! That’s hilarious. It is the equivalent of the black actors speaking like “RedNecks” in America
Have a great day! It’s probably morning for you now
In Italy it was Neapolitan dialect
Lloyd Bridges sniffing glue 🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣
Looked like they hung him upside down, you can see the tension on his face muscles.
I used to see Lloyd bridges at the Bear Valley Ski Resort in Northern CA, but was too afraid to confront him with: "Guess you picked the wrong time to quit sniffing glue."
That would have been cool. I bet he got that a lot though 😂
I would love to have been in your shoes, I worked with celebrities training them getting physically fit for roles and I am used to being around them…. I would have walked right up and said it and would have improvised additional lines.
I bet you would do it now…. Especially after the video? Right? Have a great day!!
4:48 A rug that really tied the room together. 😂😂😂😅😅😅
and wasn't pee'd on by some rando Chinaman.
You forgot the most hilarious spoof of something done in one of the "serious" movies: the sound of TURBOPROP engines during all the scenes of the clearly jet airline.
I was impressed with the serious actors who volunteered for this movie. My favourite was Robert Stack, best known for his role as Eliot Ness in The Untouchables TV series. Faces don't come any more serious, voices don't come more stern than his.
One of the greatest comedy movies of all time. You can watch it a dozen times and still find something you missed before.
June Cleaver arguing in jive is classic!
The 2nd movie I brought my future wife to SO long ago. I remember laughing out loud when the airliner was first shown in flight to the sound of internal combustion engines. Rest of the audience silent as they didn't get the joke. Wife and I still trade lines from this great creation.
Interestingly, when they first took off from LAX, you heard the classic sound of jet engines. Then once at altitude you heard the prop sound effect.
FYI, jet engines are internal combustion engines
In Australia the film was called "Flying High".
South Africa too.
It's weird how they give different names to some films in English speaking countries
So that's 21 things I didn't know!
Correct, came to say the same thing.
@@rockywatchesmoviesWe call them aeroplanes, so at the time (pre internet) the word ‘airplane’ wouldn’t have made sense. Also, the Australian title is a joke in of itself.
RIP Jim Abrahams. To this day still one of my favourite comedies ever. A bona fide hilarious classic.
Elaine's hair - the best bit of continuity work ever
Elaine; the best straight faced ditz role ever. Bravo Julie.
You forgot to mention that this started Elmer Bernstein's streak of scoring comedies, having done crime, westerns, and straight dramas in the past.
His first was Animal House in 1978
One of my favourite films. It wouldn't have been the same without Leslie Nielsen.
My tour guide in California was in this film, he played the turbaned man who tries to self immolate when Stryker tells him his life story! As a coach party we played a typically British trick and ignored all his attempts during our holiday to promote the film, which had just opened there. On the last day of travel we gave in collectively, and he appreciated the joke. We also promised to go to the cinema when it opened in Britain, and were not disappointed 😂😂😂
always remember, renting this film and my parents at the time thought it was a disaster movie spent 20 minutes before realise it was a comedy
*Airport 77" is the in-flight movie that is shown in Airplane!
In whose universe?
I watched Zero Hour after I had seen Airplane half a dozen times and was amazed at how similar the two films are.
Easily one of my favorites and best comidies ever. Robert Hays was an excellent choice and I had no idea that Leslie Nielsen was not a comedic actor before this. Shows you his range.
Leslie was in soooo many black and white Westerns
So strange - I watched Airplane! A few days ago not knowing Jim had passed soon ago. RIP friend, thanks for giving us aviation nerds and dry comedy lovers something to REALLY enjoy. 🙏🕊️
George Zip, RIP.
@@deletebilderberg Win one for the Zipper. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂😆😄😅
Wow. I thought I knew ***EVERYTHING*** about this movie and even knew about several deleted scenes, such as: the burping contest at the water cooler; "Hi, Jack!", and the man in the yellow rain coat on a tricycle near the end. BUT, I never knew about Jose Feliciano being cast as a pilot - and I nearly called B.S. - until you included actual photos of the scene in the video. Fantastic research. It's not often I can be bested by these types of videos.
Glad you got something out of it, happy to have bested you this time 🤣
So the Jose Feliciano deleted scene didn't make it to the bluray release?
@@AndrewDyson-u2u Not that I'm aware of. Though I don't own the Blu-Ray, I wasn't aware ANY deleted scenes had been included in any home-video release yet!
I've only known about them from the old TV version, or shows about deleted scenes in movies.
Ethel Merman was in the two funniest movies ever made -- this on, and "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World."
I think I laughed loudest when Ethel Merman appeared.
The Lines Peter Graves were supposed to say to Joey were much worse. Graves said he would never say such things like that to a child even if he was acting and would probably be ostracized by his friends and the industry if he did. So they had to tone it down a lot.
My sister's boy is a joey and he hears these all the time 😂
@@LisaNess-w4yyou have a sister who's a kangaroo?
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@@tejaswoman a kangaroo - what is it...?
A kangaroo? It's an animal that gets very nervous so it jumps around a lot. But that's not important right now !
RIP Jim. Thanks for all the laughs.
Saw this in the theater as a 14 year old. Still one of my favorite comedies! Only Dumb and Dumber holds a candle to this.
What about original Naked Gun?? Especially when he takes a wiz when wearing the live microphone!! Probably the funniest thing I’ve ever seen on screen
I never had the pleasure of watching this in the cinema, but i did see Dumb and Dumber. The best cinema experience I have had hands down!
Sorry, sir, Dumb and Dumber is a grade school project next to Airplane!
Being Jewish , my ultimate favorite scene was “Air Israel! Please clear the runway!”
You don't get much funnier! Than Airplane! It was hilarious! I still laugh when I watch it!
My pal was the first to get a VHS. About ten of us watched this in his gaff. We had to pause it a few times cos we were pissing ourselves so hard. Never gets old four decades later. What made it was the previouly very serious actors playing it as a drana.
Wow. Like, that's really interesting.
In Australia Airplane was renamed Flying High , not sure why . Also when I went to see the awful Get Smart movie ‘ The Nude Bomb ‘ we got a surprise showing of Airplane months before it was released here in Australia. We had no idea what the movie was because this was before the internet. I guess the movie studio wanted to see if Australians would get the jokes. I can say that I have never been in a cinema with so much laughter for the entire movie . Eventually when it was released here it was a huge hit of course . But the fact that we got to see it without knowing anything about it was the best thing ever . It it still the best thing that has happened to me movie wise .
"I can say that I have never been in a cinema with so much laughter for the entire movie... "
Totally; saw this with mum and dad at a now closed cinema in Exhibition street in Melbourne when I was 10.
Biggest audience laughs I've heard to this day. Only Ghostbusters and Beverly Hills Cop years later came close.
Possibly my favorite movie ever!
Airplane III: The Boeing Story. True, but still a comedy. Leslie Nielson as the CEO... And thanks for one of the funiest films ever made 👍
You know, an Airplane III wouldn't be a bad idea right about now. I can't think of the last real "comedy" movie I watched. It's all super-heros and vampires right now.
As I'm typing this I'm trying to think of the last movie that really made me laugh.....I'll let you know if I ever can remember 🤣😂
I have not seen the film in years. But I’m laughing watching the small clips. Such a funny movie!
Universal: Hey, you stole movie ideas from our 1970 Airplane films!
JA: You mean the movie we redid from the 1950's that we own the rights to?
Universal: Yeah, and that one stole from us too....
In Poland, there is a peculiar custom of translating movie titles in a way that they literally and thoroughly describe the movie's plot, often having nothing to do with the original title. Classic "translations" include "Szklana pułapka" (A Glass Trap) for "Die Hard" or "Elektroniczny morderca" (An Electronic Killer) for "The Terminator".
For "Airplane", the wonderfully creative title became "Czy leci z nami pilot?" (Is There a Pilot on Board?), and the sequel was translated as "Spokojnie, to tylko awaria" (Relax, it's just a malfunction).
Excellent
Awesome learned a lot about Airplane here. Didn't know it was Lloyd and Leslie's first comedic roll. Knrw it was a hit but hadn't realised it was such a huge hit!
Just watching these short clips makes me cry laughing
So funny.... Surely you can't be serious!
Don't call me Shirley.
I am serious. And don’t call me Shirley.
Hey Rocky! Another great video! Thanx!!!
You're most welcome
I picked the wrong time to stop sniffing glue…🤣 & don’t call me Shirley…
I'm looking forward to your video on Airplane II, the sequel
It will get made at some point, I watched it again the other day straight after Airplane!, not a patch on this one.
*all I know is that the little girl takes her coffee black, like her men*
The little girl is Penny in The Rescuers.
One of my favourite movies. Thank you, and don't call me Shirley!
You're welcome
Missed a lot of little cameos in this movie. The "Jive Lady" was Barbara Billingsly (Mrs. Cleaver from Leave It T=to Beaver), the sick little girl on the flight Lisa Davis (Jill Whelan, Capt. Stubing's daughter from The Love Boat) & the window washer (Jimmie "JJ" Walker from the TV show Good Times).
Airplane!" (1980) became "Flying High?" in Australia and New Zealand. Distributors in both Australia and New Zealand changed the title of this classic comedy from "Airplane!" to "Flying High" because they thought it would be too similar to another American movie released at the same time.4 Sept 2017
Haha you included the date when you copy and pasted from Google.
@seanhamilton4175 That's nice of you to notice.
The movie being The Concorde, Airport '79 because it was released in Australia and New Zealand in 1980, the same year as Airplane/Flying High.
The only actual comedian in Airplane! was Stephen Stucker who played Johnny.
Yes, he performed at the Kentucky Fried Theatre
RIP Stephen...
Coffee Johnny...?
@ No thanks.
It was called flying high in Australia 🇦🇺
Found your channel a couple of days ago and it is refreshing to have someone give some facts about movies in an entertaining way and not sound like a robot. I have only ever subscribed to 1 other channel doing the same thing, so now I have 2 channels to watch.
Thank you so much, I'm glad you enjoy the videos
Can you do Top Secret! from 1984?
Don't call me Shirley...
You have to watch this movie multiple times to catch all the jokes. One of my all time favorites!
This was one of my favourite childhood movies, but it will always be known as Flying High to me, as that was the title of it in Australia.
Interesting stuff here including the singer playing the nun was the singer in Towering Inferno. Christopher Lee was very funny in 1941.
I will do a video on 1941 at some point
Suggestion: Do a video on "Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World". Another classic in my opinion.
So underrated.
Holy moly, I just Googled it, 3hr 22mins long. I'll add it to the long list
Thanks, one correction: Leslie Neilson did comedy long before, as in an episode of Night Gallery, where he plays a parody of phantom of the opera, hilariously!! 😅
I will have to check that out and have a watch
@rockywatchesmovies it's called "phantom of WHAT opera?", and he had the crew cracking up constantly
Great memories Great move thanks
"Zero Hour" (1957) was based on the Telemovie "Flight Into Danger" (1956), written by Arthur Hailey of "Airport" fame. The Doug McLure movie, "Terror In The Sky" was also based off these. "Airport 75 confusingly released in 1974"?...."2001 A Space Odessy" was released in 1968...nobody was puzzled...A version of"1984" was released in 1956...not a raised eyebrow........"One Million Years B.C." was released in 1966....yeah, that was a bit wrong in more ways than one....
It's confusing because Airport '77 came out in 1977, The Concorde... Airport '79 came out in 1979. It's about continuity, i thought that was obvious
Awesome film :)
Love the video, FYI, it's Peter Graves. Not Pete Graves
Thanks. Oops, I've just checked it out and yes, that is a mistake. I had Peter in the script, just a slip of tongue or I was imagining we were mates at the time 😂
I thought it was based on the novel Flight into Danger. We had to read in elementary school as a child in Canada. The plane was flying from back east to Vancouver for a Grey Cup game. The pilots got food poisoning from eating fish.
Arthur Hailey I think
You missed something. When Ethel Merman is getting out of bed, the young lady sitting at the bedside is Yeardly Smith. The role is unaccredited by IMDB, but it is definitely her.
Dont call me Shirley
You can't be serious...
I saw the movie on Seattle when it first came out. I worked in aviation at the time. You could tell who was aviation by what jokes the audience laughed at. Like the fueling of the aircraft.
True story: In 1982 I was 8 yrs old. Inspired by the movie, I asked if I could go into the cockpit of the 747 we flew on. They allowed me to (after we landed). The stewardess brought me and my parents up to the cockpit. The Captain greets me and asks if I wanna sit in the Captain's chair. Absolutely! So he picks me up to place me in the seat and accidentally whacks my head against the overhead console. It didn't hurt, but the stewardess let's out a gasp, puts her hands up to her face and the poor Captain is apologizing like crazy, fussing over me making sure I'm ok, where I'm like "Yeah yeah yeah...what does this knob do? What does this lever do?" He goes on to apologize to my folks and they're laughing telling him if I was really hurt I'd be screaming my head off. 😅 (...and while I didn't get a toy plane, he gave me a little pair of brass wings I could pin on my shirt to let people know I was an honorary pilot)
That's awesome
One of the greatest comedies of all time. One thing about Leslie Nielsen was that this wasn't his first bit in comedy. He had appeared in an episode of M*A*S*H as a colonel who Hawkeye and Trapper drive nuts to get him relieved of his command. Also, the tube of "glue" that Llyod Bridges was sniffing was actually modelling putty (the gray tube used by Testors). Their glue had either an orange tube (regular) or blue (non-toxic). And Otto stole the show. He played himself according to the credits.
Love this film. I've seen it dozens of times, it took me ages to realise that the background plane sound is of a propeller plane not a jet lol.
Don't feel too bad: I remember laughing my head off when I heard that sound of those WW2 bomber engines on every exterior shot of the model when I was originally watching it in the cinema; many of the people sat nearby to me were wondering what I was actually laughing at. I still think it's one of the funniest things in the entire movie, but even now, some people still don't notice it.
The directors wanted the airplane to be a prop just like the original movie but the producers were strict about wanting a jet. They refused to green light the movie unless it was a jet. The directors agreed but in the post production they had the editors change the jet noise to prop.
From the looks of the paint scheme, appeared to be an ex-TWA 707 (they altered it of course, but those two stripes at the bottom of the fuselage that got bigger going to the rear of the plane was a dead give away. Probably had recently been retired by TWA, as they had the 747 and L-1011 for long haul, and the 767 would be arriving shortly. Also, the 747 that crashed into the terminal in the beginning may have also been TWA or ex-TWA (My first time flying to L. A.(from NYC) was on a TWA 747. We did not crash into the terminal 😂(we did have to land at Kansas City for an engine problem. Left NYC ontime at Noon EST, finally got to LA around 9 PM PST, which was midnight EST 😩12 hours on a plane is a bit much, even on the Queen of the Skies)
Nothing new that I didn't already know from reading ZAZ's book "Surely You Can't Be Serious" (I forget the subtitle, but I don't want to get up our of my reclining sofa to check the book cover), which tells the whole story about how the movie came to be made - prefaced by the story of Kentucky Fried Movie (the theater production, and then the movie.) I recommend the book, if you want all the details.
The book sounds like it would be a good read, I loved The Kentucky Fried Movie when I was a kid.
@rockywatchesmovies I got it on Amazon.
Absolute Classic.
Ahhh they fell for the classic pre-announce-a-sequal-in-the-credits curse. You don't do that unless you want it to be canceled. Buckaroo Bonzai did it too in 1984, where's that movie sequal?
Rocky, I’m enjoying your videos and I’ve subscribed, but please: WHY do the British people say “Los Angeleeze”?
You didn't mention that the taxi passenger was Harold Jarvis, who was somewhat notorious at the time.
Many thanks to the Zuckers and Jim Abrahams for making my favorite movie of all time! ❤
have you seen Top Secret from 1984?
@AndrewDyson-u2u no, but I will now! Thanks!
@@JeepGirl941 Excellent; you'll really like it. Vale Jim.
Who else thought A Rug Deal was about the hair piece that KAJ wore in the movie?
People miss Ronald Reagan was a running gag throughout the movie. First reference was during boarding the boy has a US News and World Report magazine with election article headline, Later the ill lady mentions the last Ronald Reagan film they saw. Most do catch pilot Lt George Zipp is a play on Reagan's George Gipp and the Knute Rockney All American pep talk. Reagan did serve in the USAAF during WW2 but not a pilot. Incidentally, Knute Rockne died in an1931 plane crash (Transcontinental and Western Air).
This was a lot of fun, love this movie!
RIP Jim Abrahams
My cousin had just came out to his parents about being gay
A little while later my parents took me to see this movie
When the scene where the topless woman runs across the screen came on I said "Oh Yea" my mom said "yes!"as she realized that I wasn't
In Australia it was,flying high
The old guy waiting in the cab at the beginning of the movie was somebody by the name of Howard Jarvis. He was semi-famous in California at the time for creating "Proposition 13", which was a property tax measure (Jarvis- Gann) that passed the voters at that time.......how's that for a bit of "Airplane" trivia???
Did I leave the iron on?
Hellen ready reaky
Little boy offers coffee to little girl...
Little boy: Cream?
Little girl: No thank you. I take it black, like my men.
Seen this movie dozens of times and love it.
Surely you can't be serious
Horrible
@@jack002tuber Don't call me Shirley!!!!!!! 😂
lol at the look on little boys face after the gag liner
Was your intertitle at 02:40, being _“WHAT IFS?“,_ intentional?
*IFS* is a *TLA* (Three-Letter Acronym) for _Instrument Flight Rules,_ a fundamental flying mode, especially for commercial aviation.
You've typed IFS twice and said it's instrument flight rules: it is not. IFR is instrument flight rules.
It wasn't, looks like it was just a nice coincidence
20 facts surely you canrt be serious
I can … and don’t call me Shirley.
Surely you can’t be serious
But don’t call me surely
Check it blee, da bro was ooooon. DIdn't flip, but da folks was freakin' man, hey. Yo, blood hammered out trip sheee. Tightened that sucks side a runway like a mutha... sheeee.
Thanks for the info about "Zero Hour". When this movie came out I knew nothing about it until several of several of my friends came up to me and asked if I wrote the movie. I didn't understand what they meant until I saw the movie. As the movie progressed, the first time I had ever seen it, I knew exactly what the jokes would be and what dialog would be next. I almost could have written it. Love this movie, have seen it dozens of times. Well done.
You're most welcome
The guy who played ted striker in DC cab in 1987 comedy starring mr t Gary busey and some other good actors
Wow. Like, that's really interesting.
Well done for pronouncing homage correctly.
Don't call me Sheryl
Why do British people say “Los Angeleez”? Bizarre.
Probably the same reason people pronounce Hercules as "Herculeez."
I was hoping someone else caught that.
@@leestamm3187So, you are inferring that it’s pronounced, “Herculiss”?
@@dma124 No. "Just that *Herculeez" is the typical pronunciation of Hercules. 😁
@ Right. And “Angeleez” is not correct, anywhere.
I wonder if the scene with Stevie Wonder is available anywhere to see? Sounds hilarious ....
I don't think so, I searched but couldn't find anything. Such a shame.
A very funny comedy
I think in Australia the movie was called FLYING HIGH maybe governments didn't like that name as it sounds like it could be about drugs!
I did enjoy the video (and gave it a Like, as I made it that far), but I have to offer one correction - Abrahams has three syllables. Abrams is a related but different name.
I was unsure at first, but i watch a lot of videos of people introducing him in person, and they said it like Abrams. So I went with that
@@rockywatchesmovies Ok, fair enough, though I suspect it's a Steve Buscemi type situation where he's given up on other people pronouncing it the way he does and just doesn't bother to correct them.
Surely you can't be serious
I amand stop calling me Shirley
I've seen this Movie back in the Days in Cinema and several Times later on VHS, DVD and Streaming. Love it, it's an all time Classic!
Bought the DVD, bluray, and soon we get a Z/A/Z 4K set
Did you know it was the cool-aid man that crashed the 747 thru the glass windows?
That's cool 😉
OOOOOHHHH YEEEAAAH!!!!