Airplane! - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[veronica]

The singing nun is Maureen McGovern, who sings the theme song to the sitcom Angie (1979), which Robert Hays was co-starring in at the time of filming. McGovern's appearance in the film is a poke at her having sung the Oscar-winning theme songs for two classic disaster movies: "The Morning After" from The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and "We May Never Love Like This Again" from The Towering Inferno (1974).

[janice]

Lloyd Bridges as Steve McCroskey spoofs his role as airport manager Jim Conrad in the TV series San Francisco International Airport (1970). Also, Robert Stack appeared as an airline pilot whose nerve fails him during an in-flight disaster in The High and the Mighty (1954). Peter Graves appeared in a similar "airplane disaster" TV movie, SST: Death Flight (1977).

[steve]

The casting of professional basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as a member of the flight crew was a reference to pro football player Elroy 'Crazylegs' Hirsch's role as a pilot in the serious airplane disaster film Zero Hour! (1957)

[leo]

The Finest Hours 2016

The Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952.

The Finest Hours features exciting, realistic, serious, scenic and breathtaking style.

[fred]

Flood 2007

Timely yet terrifying The Flood predicts the unthinkable. When a raging storm coincides with high seas it unleashes a colossal tidal surge which travels mercilessly down Englands East Coast and into the Thames Estuary. Overwhelming the ...

Flood features serious, suspenseful, talky, apocalyptic and captivating style.

[Rodneyarife]

San Andreas Quake 2015

When a discredited L.A. Seismologist warns of an impending 12.7 earthquake no one takes her seriously. Now on her own she races desperately to get her family to safety before the earthquake breaks Los Angeles apart from the mainland.

San Andreas Quake features mockbuster, intense, suspense, serious and suspenseful style.

[linda]

Airport 77 1977

Flight 23 has crashed in the Bermuda Triangle while taking VIPs and valuable art to Philip Stevens new museum. But when hijackers take off the plane and knock everyone out with sleeping gas the plane crashes in the sea. The passengers survive but a ...

Airport 77 features exciting, suspense, suspenseful, serious and psychotronic style.

[Aaronduthf]

Airport 1975 1974

quotSomething hit us...the crew is dead...help us please please help usquot With these terrifying words 22 of Hollywoods greatest stars find themselves aboard a pilotless jumbo jet headed on a collision course with destruction in the ...

Airport 1975 features suspenseful, psychotronic, suspense, psychological and fast style.

[francisco]

Juggernaut 1974

A bomber has planted 7 bombs on a transatlantic cruise ship. While a crack bomb squad team try to defuse the bombs the police attempt to track down the mad bomber.

Juggernaut features suspenseful, suspense, realistic, rough and serious style.

[moviebuff]

Earthquake 1974

Earthquake is a 1974 American disaster film that achieved huge box-office success continuing the disaster film genre of the 1970s where recognizable all-star casts attempt to survive life or death situations. The plot concerns the struggle for ...

Earthquake features suspenseful, suspense, exciting, rough and bad ending style.

[camila]

San Andreas 2015

In the aftermath of a massive earthquake in California a rescue-chopper pilot makes a dangerous journey across the state in order to rescue his estranged daughter.

San Andreas features exciting, suspenseful, suspense, intense and serious style.

[Damiano]

Noah 2014

A man who suffers visions of an apocalyptic deluge takes measures to protect his family from the coming flood.

Noah features biblical, exciting, captivating, apocalyptic and fairy tale style.

[Svetapennob]

Deep Water 2000

Hotshot Navy special ops guys get assigned to take a cruise to keep an eye on a VIPs daughter. Once the voyage is under way somehow a nuke A gets lost in the vicinity and goes off. The resulting tidal wave capsizes the cruise ship and its ...

Deep Water features suspense, suspenseful, tense, exciting and independent film style.

[bryan]

Vertical Limit 2000

Trapped near the summit of K2 the worlds second-highest mountain Annie Garrett radios to base camp for help. Brother Peter hears Annies message and assembles a team to save her and her group before they succumb to K2s unforgiving ...

Vertical Limit features suspense, exciting, tense, suspenseful and rough style.

[Mai Lan]

In the Heart of the Sea 2015

In the winter of 1820 the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe a whale of mammoth size and will and an almost human sense of vengeance. The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melvilles ...

In the Heart of the Sea features scenic, suspense, exciting, realistic and inspirational style.

[maureen]

Avalanche 1978

The vacationers at a winter wonderland struggle to survive after an avalanche of snow crashes into their ski resort. Their holiday then turns into a game of survival.

Avalanche features serious, suspenseful, realistic, bleak and psychotronic style.

[jessie]

Speed 2: Cruise Control 1997

Sandra Bullock and Jason Patric star as a young couple whose dream cruise turns to terror when a lunatic computer genius Willem Dafoe sets a new course for destruction.

Speed 2: Cruise Control features suspense, realistic, serious, suspenseful and rough style.

[edgar]

Nature Unleashed: Avalanche 2004

It begins on a glacier nestled on a frozen peak high in the wild Ural Mountains of Russia kissed by clouds the top of the world. A lonely forbidding place its home to THOM CUSSLER and brother JOCK a pair of transplanted westerners ...

Nature Unleashed: Avalanche features serious, exciting and suspenseful

[aaron]

The Wave 2015

Based on the fact that mountain party kneset located in the Geiranger fjord in Norway one day will race out and create a violent tsunami of over 80 meters that will crush everything in its path before it hits land in Geiranger. A geologist gets ...

The Wave features suspenseful, suspense, intense, road movie and tense style.

[leshanob]

The Concorde... Airport 79 1979

The last of the Airport series again stars George Kennedy as aviation disaster-prone Joe Patroni this time having to contend with nuclear missiles the French Air Force and the threat of the plane splitting in two over the Alps

The Concorde... Airport 79 features psychological, cult classic, fast, serious and bleak style.