Do You Remember the Film for Which the Comedy ‘Airplane’ Was Based?

The 1980 motion picture "Airplane" starring Robert Hays, Leslie Nielsen, and Julie Hagerty, is one of those movies you can watch a hundred times and it's still just as funny as the first time. Did you know "Airplane" was based on a very serious 1957 movie called "Zero Hour"?

Basically, "Zero Hour" is "Airplane," just dead serious. The film starred Linda Darnell, Dana Andrews, and Sterling Hayden. Rarely do parodies follow a movie as closely as this. Take a look at footage from "Zero Hour" followed by a video showing comparisons of the two films.