British Comedy Guide

Airplane or Naked Gun? Page 2

Quote: Nick Nockerty @ 8th October 2015, 4:59 PM BST

I use to be really tall.

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Airplane as without it there would be no Naked Gun.

Also watched Airplane on a big screen film out when at school and never heard so many people laugh so hard for so long.

A milestone film for US comedy and Lloyd Bridges was excellent.

Right now (7pm 9th December 2015) the TCM TV channel are showing Zero Hour, the original film that Airplane was based on.

Much of the script is the same, just done seriously not for laughs, "Looks like I picked the wrong week to give up smoking" for example.

Even the pilot is called Ted Stryker.

Here are a couple of YouTube videos comparing scenes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BjU-e01zQ4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-v2BHNBVCs

Police Squad all the way. It's so clever!

I'll play that game
Hotshots Part Deux for me

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