Often considered one of the top ten comedies of all time, the original Airplane! is a perfect spoof of the popular disaster films of the 1970’s. Highly quotable, some of its most famous lines are still repeated today, more than…
A bonafide movie star for over thirty years of his working life, Gary Cooper is considered by many film historians to one of the more iconic movie stars of all time. Fans loved him because they felt they could relate…
A frenzied parody of the underrated Airport series (which, incidentally, had already parodied itself by 1980 with the atrocious Concorde: Airport ‘79), many of the gags used in Airplane! have been copied and reworked countless times over the past forty…
Independently produced by Stanley Kramer (High Noon, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner), Home of the Brave was based on the successful Broadway play by Arthur Laurents. Kramer, famous for making “message” movies throughout his career, made one significant change. In…
Often considered one of the top ten comedies of all time, the original Airplane! is a perfect spoof of the popular disaster films of the 1970’s. Highly quotable, some of its most famous lines are still repeated today, more than…
Growing up, I considered Airplane! One of the funniest movies I’d ever seen. However, a little more than thirty years after its initial release, I’m said to say, Airplane! hasn’t aged well. Though it still retains the capacity to elicit…