There are several scenes that Dana Andrews would play almost exactly the same in the 1958 Film Noir, The Fearmakers, including having his eyes checked at a doctor's in the beginning. Also, actor Roy Gordon appears with Andrews in both movies, playing an old friend in each.
Zero Hour!
A routine flight turns into a major emergency as passengers and crew succumb to food poisoning - is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane? If that sounds vaguely familiar, it's because 'Airplane' was a send-up of this forerunner of the 1970s disaster movie. Written by Michael Brooke
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