Article on the background of ''Airplane!''

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It's a long, long read, but it has a lot of detail about how it went from "idea" to "completed film".

 

Also neat to read the stories from the surviving cast members and how they ended up in the film:

 

http://www.avclub.com/article/surely-you-cant-be-serious-oral-history-airplane-218043

 

 

[DC Tom]

The Leslie Nielsen story is great, but capping it with the picture they used is hilarious.

[BuffaloBill]

What a classic film...you know something is funny when it can make you laugh with known lines decades later.

[Just Jack]

Now I've got to find Zero Hour.