Written and directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker, AIRPLANE! (1980) is surely one of the art form’s most groundbreaking, gut-busting comedies, landing it on the American Film Institute’s list of the greatest comedies of all time – with the hilariously iconic exchange between Robert Hays’ Striker and Leslie Nielsen’s Dr. Rumack also appearing on AFI’s list of cinema’s great quotes…but don’t call me Shirley.
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