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[CONTAINER][POSTER] [/POSTER][MOVIE]Title: Zero Hour!

Genre: [GENRE]Action[/GENRE], [GENRE]Drama[/GENRE], [GENRE]Thriller[/GENRE]

Director: [DIRECTOR]Hall Bartlett[/DIRECTOR]

Cast: [ACTOR]Dana Andrews[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Linda Darnell[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Sterling Hayden[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Geoffrey Toone[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Jerry Paris[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Steve London[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Elroy 'Crazylegs' Hirsch[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Peggy King[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Charles Quinlivan[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Patricia Tiernan[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Jo Ann Wade[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Maxine Cooper[/ACTOR]

Release Date: [RELEASE]1957-11-13[/RELEASE]

Runtime: [RUNTIME]81[/RUNTIME]

Plot: [PLOT]A routine flight turns into a major emergency as passengers and crew succumb to food poisoning - is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane? If that sounds vaguely familiar, it's because 'Airplane' was a send-up of this forerunner of the 1970s disaster movie. Written by Michael Brooke[/PLOT][/MOVIE][/CONTAINER]

The movie that Airplane! makes fun of!

Omg dude these guys totally ripped off Airplane the Wachowski brothers should sue.

Ripped off? Hell, they used the same damn script.

GasBandit said:

Omg dude these guys totally ripped off Airplane the Wachowski brothers should sue.

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They're just the Wachowskis now. And I didn't even realize they had anything to do with Airplane!

Ravenpoe said:

They're just the Wachowskis now. And I didn't even realize they had anything to do with Airplane!

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That's because one of the Wachowski brothers is a Wachowski sister now.

GasBandit said:

(I know they are, and they didn't. Airplane was the Zuckers and Abrahams) That'sTheJoke.GIF

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I'd actually forgotten about the Zuckers. Makes sense now, I'll go sit in the corner.

IIRC they bought the rights to zero hour so they didn't have to pretend that they didn't rip it off