Airplane! — the 1980 Zucker brothers comedy about a midair jetliner disaster — is a remake of the 1957 thriller Zero Hour. Simon Hollington and Kypros Kyprianou ripped all of the jokes and gags out of Airplane! and turned it back into a drama.
Fourteen minutes of YouTube goodness.
Hat tip to NeatoramaPosted by DaveH at October 10, 2010 7:06 PM