Airplane! is anAmerican comedy film, first released on 27 June 1980, produced, directed, and written by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams,and Jerry Zucker. Airplane! starredRobert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Lorna Petterson. For release in Australia, Japan and the Philippines, Airplane! was re-titled as Flying High. Airplane! is a spoof of the disaster movie genre. It is unique among film parodies in that Airplane! is a virtual remake of the 1957 Canadian airplane disaster movie Zero Hour. … Continue reading →