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Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs  According to Wiki - The film is a parody of the disaster film genre, particularly the 1957 Paramount film Zero Hour!, from which it borrows the plot and the central characters,[6] as well as many elements from Airport 1975.
I haven't seen Zero Hour!. |
If you watch the side-by-side YouTube video, you'll see the intentional similarities between
Airplane! and
Zero Hour!. It's probably possible to make a similar video with either
Young Frankenstein or
Dracula: Dead and Loving It and the films Mel Brooks was spoofing