Overview
An ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning.
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| Country: | US |
| Genre: | Comedy |
| Production Companies: | Paramount Pictures, Howard W. Koch Productions |
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Cast
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Roger Murdock
Lloyd Bridges
Steve McCroskey
Peter Graves
Capt. Clarence Oveur
Julie Hagerty
Elaine Dickinson
Robert Hays
Ted Striker
Leslie Nielsen
Dr. Rumack
Lorna Patterson
Randy
Robert Stack
Captain Rex Kramer
Stephen Stucker
Johnny Henshaw-Jacobs
Jim Abrahams
Religious Zealot #6
Frank Ashmore
Victor Basta
Jonathan Banks
Gunderson
Craig Berenson
Paul Carey
Barbara Billingsley
Jive Lady
Lee Bryant
Mrs. Hammen
MEC
Mae E. Campbell
Security Lady
Ethel Merman
Lieutenant Hurwitz
Jimmie Walker
Windshield Wiper Man
Jill Whelan
Lisa Davis
Kitten Natividad
Bouncy Topless Woman on Plane (uncredited)
Nora Meerbaum
Cocaine Lady
Kenneth Tobey
Air Controller Neubauer
James Hong
Japanese General
Michelle Stacy
Young Girl with Coffee
David Leisure
First Krishna
Ann Nelson
Hanging Lady
Al White
Second Jive Dude
Nicholas Pryor
Mr. Hammen
Cyril O'Reilly
Soldier
TC
Ted Chapman
Airport Steward
JE
Jesse Emmett
Man from India
NAG
Norman Alexander Gibbs
First Jive Dude
AG
Amy Gibson
Soldier's Girl
Marcy Goldman
Mrs. Geline
BG
Bob Gorman
Striped Controller
RH
Rossie Harris
Joey
MH
Maurice Hill
Reporter #3
DH
David Hollander
Young Boy with Coffee
HH
Howard Honig
Jack
Gregory Itzin
Religious Zealot #1
HJ
Howard Jarvis
Man in Taxi
Michael Laurence
Newscaster
ZL
Zachary Lewis
Religious Zealot #3
BM
Barbara Mallory
Religious Zealot #2
Maureen McGovern
Nun
MM
Mary Mercier
Shirley
LM
Len Mooy
Reporter #1
LN
Laura Nix
Mrs. Hurwitz
John O'Leary
Reporter #2
BP
Bill Porter
Hospital Contortionist
Conrad E. Palmisano
Religious Zealot #4
Mallory Sandler
L.A. Ticket Agent
Robert Starr
Religious Zealot #5
Barbara Stuart
Mrs. Kramer
LT
Lee Terri
Mrs. Oveur
William Tregoe
Jack Kirkpatrick
HU
Hatsuo Uda
Japanese Newscaster
Herb Voland
Air Controller Macias
JDW
John David Wilder
Second Krishna
W
Windy
Horse
Jason Wingreen
Dr. Brody
LY
Louise Yaffe
Mrs. Jaffe
CZ
Charlotte Zucker
Make-up Lady
David Zucker
Ground Crewman #2
Jerry Zucker
Ground Crewman #1
Joyce Bulifant
Mrs. Davis
Larry Blake
Upside-Down Man (uncredited)
Paula Moody
Girl Scout In Bar (uncredited)
Sandra Lee Gimpel
Girl Scout In Bar (uncredited)
Henry Wills
Commuter on Baggage Carousel (uncredited)
Joyce Mandel
Woman on Flight (uncredited)
Gene LeBell
Religious Zealot (uncredited)
SB
Susan Breslau
Ticket Agent (uncredited)
Bob Bryan
Native (uncredited)
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He also discovered Leslie Nielsen as a comedy actor.
abstractly, extraordinary - yes. but not black.
I would call this creation of the Zucker brothers a standard of parody and banter, a comedy of the absurd - that's where the beauty, subtlety, and skill that all current creators lack.
and old man Nielsen, as a mega-actor, was discovered long before this tape, where he was already gray...
And it's written about Nielsen that he's open as a comedy actor, not as an actor at all. Read carefully.
in the few things that you have listed as examples, there is more absurdity than blackness.
"black humor" is "Tucker & Dale vs Evil ", "Fargo " or "The Ladykillers".
The thesis about Nielsen is open as an actor of comedy - I still can't share it, but I'm ending the argument, because this opinion, as it turned out, is textbook.
perhaps my personal perception of his earlier works in the same Columbo, M*A*S*H, and even Forbidden Planet, which involuntarily evoke a smile, is not objective due to the fact that that at the time of watching, Nielsen had already managed to fall in love with me as a comedy actor who does everything with a serious face.
It's probably like with Rowan Atkinson - it's a little difficult to switch to Maigret after Mr. Bean and Johnny English...
- Yes.
"The first time?"
– No, I was worried before.
"Are you kidding?"
– I'm not joking. And don't call me Stolom))
"Would you like a whiskey, madam?"
"How dare you! (she was indignant and sniffed a trail of cocaine)
So much wordplay, so many jokes with idioms and colloquial expressions. A lot of politically incorrect humor, ridiculing everyone and everything, starting from Blacks and ending with pedophiles.
Oh, nostalgia. No one can make such a film now. I'm not even sure if it's okay to show it. Well, everyone will be offended at once)))