My new orders came through - we ship out tomorrow. We’re bombing the storage depots at Daiquiri at 0-1800 hours. We’re flying in low from the north, below their radar.
When will you be back?
I can’t tell you that - it’s classified.
Some things never change.
But then, some do!
Surely, you can’t be serious!
Don’t call me Shirley.
I found “Zero Hour” online, downloaded, and watched it once. Other than many pop culture references, the ZAZ team didn’t have to work very hard to write the script.
And in Airplane! the nun was played by Maureen McGovern, who sang the love themes from The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno.
There’s got to be a morning afterrrrrrrr…
We may never love like this againnnnn…
The little girl in “Airport '75” (which came out in '74) was Linda (“The Exorcist”) Blair, the singing nun was Helen Reddy! The little girl in “Airplane!” is Jill (Capt. Stubing’s daughter from “The Love Boat”) Whelan.
What a cast!
Though you can barely recognize him, the airplane mechanic (who checked the oil & wiped the windshield during the pre-flight check) was played by Jimmie “Dy-No-Miiite!” Walker from Good Times.
I love the absurdist dialogue in this movie.
Perhaps, my favorite:
Steve McCroskey: Johnny, what can you make out of this?
[Hands him the weather briefing]
Johnny: This? Why, I can make a hat or a brooch or a pterodactyl…
Alex Hailey never let a good plot go to waste. He also published this story as runway zero eight.
There was a German remake as well, in 1964, called Flug in Gefahr. Really.