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Airplane! (alternatively titled Flying High!) [5] is a 1980 American disaster comedy film written and directed by Jim Abrahams and brothers David and Jerry Zucker in their directorial debut, [6] and produced by Jon Davison.
David Samuel Zucker (born October 16, 1947) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. Associated mostly with parody comedies, Zucker is recognized for collaborating with Jim Abrahams and his brother Jerry as part of Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker, with whom he wrote and directed the 1980 film Airplane! and created The Naked Gun franchise.
Airport '77 is a 1977 American air disaster film, the third installment of the Airport film series. The film stars an ensemble cast of veteran actors including Jack Lemmon, James Stewart, Joseph Cotten, Olivia de Havilland, and Brenda Vaccaro as well as the return of George Kennedy from the two previous Airport films.
Airplane! (1980), a comedy film directed by Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker, which parodies the disaster film genre, including the Airport franchise. Porco Rosso (1992), an animated film by Studio Ghibli about an ex-World War I air fighter-turned bounty hunter in the appearance of an anthropomorphic pig living in the Adriatic Sea.
Variety wrote: "Based on the novel by Arthur Hailey, over-produced by Ross Hunter with a cast of stars as long as a jet runway, and adapted and directed by George Seaton in a glossy, slick style, Airport is a handsome, often dramatically involving $10 million epitaph to a bygone brand of filmmaking" but added that the film "does not create ...
Landis was recommended to direct National Lampoon's Animal House in 1978 based on his work with The Kentucky Fried Movie. [5] The film's writers were the team of David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker, who subsequently wrote and directed Airplane!, Top Secret! and the Police Squad! television series and its film spin-offs, The Naked Gun films.
James Roy Horner (August 14, 1953 – June 22, 2015) was an American film composer and conductor. He worked on more than 160 film and television productions between 1978 and 2015.
Air Force One is a 1997 American political action thriller film directed and co-produced by Wolfgang Petersen and starring Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Glenn Close, Wendy Crewson, Xander Berkeley, William H. Macy, Dean Stockwell, Paul Guilfoyle and Jürgen Prochnow.