Airport ‘75

And don’t passengers actually get food poisoning?

[quote]This is the film that the Airplane folk used the most for material.

No. Not true.

The film they used was 1957's "Zero Hour". In fact, I think those making "Airplane" actually bought the rights to "Zero Hour" to avoid lawsuits.

Did you have the chicken or the fish?

Ironically, Dana Andrews was one of the stars of "Zero Hour", and appeared in "Airport 1975" too.

The people are so interesting!!

[quote] This is the film that the Airplane folk used the most for material.

Except really it wasn’t:

A lot of Airplane came from Airport 75

Salt Lake? Salt Lake? Are you there?

If I, Sister Helen Reddy, sing your demonic ass a song, will you agree to shut the fuck up?

Thanks for translating the word 'stewardess' for us, OP.

R9 - sit by me, please!

Erik Estrada was delectable in this movie.

OP, you stole my thread!

And Gloria Swanson as herself. She gets a really nice star entrance early in the movie.

Karen Black sticking her tongue out at 1:18 in this clip made me laugh so hard the first time I saw it. She looks ‘special’.

Jerry Stiller was in this. Serenity now!

My pussy is so interesting!

Maybe this will help.

I just finished rewatching this on Netflix. Yeah, it's dumb. And the dialogue is pathetic (as are most of the performances). But the suspense still holds and it's fun to see all the famous faces.

Linda Blair, shortly after the film's release, told an interviewer that she wished they'd cut her role entirely from the film. I think many audience members agreed with her...

r18 NOBODY watches this movie and takes it seriously. So trying to judge a movie for its performances and laughable dialogue by stiff stalwarts is in of itself an exercise in futility.

r18 it's a 10/10 in CAMP.

#14, My Mom and I laughed ourselves silly at the same scene!

Sister Beatrice (Martha Scott) - Look, Sister. An ambulance.

Sister Ruth (Helen Reddy) - Oh, I hope it's not serious.

Mrs. Abbot (Nancy Olson) - Please, Janice, remember what the doctor said. You must lie very, very still.

Janice Abbot (Linda Blair) - I know, Mother, but it's so exciting. The people are so interesting!

Sister Ruth (Helen Reddy): What kind of pussy do you like?

Janice Abbot (Linda Blair): Oh, I like, uh... I like white pussy and, uh... black pussy. All kinds.

Sister Ruth: Me too. Would you like to try mine?

Janice: OK.

Sister Ruth: Is it all right if I sit here with my legs spread?

Janice: Sure!

Sister Ruth: While you eat me I'm gonna sing...

# Would you take better care of yourself

# Would you wash your box?

# Would you be more forgiving of your beef curtains?

# If you realized your best friend was your pussy?

# Who is always with you everywhere

# Who is there when others are unfair?

# Your pussy

# And tell me, who will never let you down?

# Your Pussy

# Who will always see you get off?

#Your pussy

# And that's why I am a best friend to my pussy

# It's nice to sit and finger bang myself silly

# Mm-mm-mm, mm

# Mm-mm, mm, mm-mm

The flight schedule didn’t make any sense. What kind of red eye flight flies from east (Dulles) to west (LAX)? And therefore wouldn’t the aerial scenes over the mountains have taken place in complete darkness?

That's what lost it a best picture nomination, r25.

Remember, Gloria Swanson wrote most of her great lines herself. Why she got that deal, I'll never know, but she (unintnentioanlyl) gives herself almost the campiest lines in the entire film.

" I guess everyone had given up hope including the Doctors. Nobody expected me to live, but then I've never done anything I was expected to do!"

R24 is HILARIOUS

Dears, the spoof was based on my cinematic classic. Cross my eyes and hope to die.

For some reason, the Myrna Loy character ordering a boilermaker is supposed to be funny.

People were used to Myrna sipping something a bit more sophisticated.

Did men actually have "little black books," as Julio did? Or was that just a lothario stereotype?

Yes, back in medieval times before personal technology devices men (and women) carried little address books, especially when they went out of town.

R25, if the flight left IAD at 6 am ET westbound for LAX in the winter it would be dark at takeoff and then it would be morning when the plane makes an emergency landing at SLC.

I love this movie

R34 A plane that leaves at dawn and flies into daylight hours isn't really a redeye, though.

A redeye departs at night, and arrives in the morning. In the US, this is typically only done on flights going west-east, such as LAX-IAD, and not the other way around.

Karen Black's cat-eyed sexy stew should've known this. It wasn't a redeye. It was just a morning flight.

Well, Karen had planned on writing her own dialogue ala Swanson and wanted to call it a brown eye...so...

Her name is Nancy Pryor, r36.

[quote] Yes, back in medieval times before personal technology devices men (and women) carried little address books, especially when they went out of town.

It also made it ever so more convenient in relaying your sexual history to the clinic during the next STD breakout.

R37 Explains why her boyfriend wanted to meet her in that skeezy VIP lounge after the flight.