Airplane! (1980) & Zero Hour! (1957) side by side comparison (and a special bonus scene at the end)

FILM FACT: As well as the ‘Airport’ films of the 1970s, much of the inspiration for Airplane! (1980) came from Zero Hour! (1957). So much so that the makers of Airplane felt they needed to obtain the rights from Warner Bros. and Paramount. It cost them about $2,500. This is my attempt to find the similarities. Stay until the end for a bonus clip! A different kind of random this week. I got a little obsessed thinking the two films, hence this edit, hunting down the similarities and trying to align them. I just wanted to see if I could and here is the result. I hope you enjoy it. There’s a lot going on at times, but it’s worth staying until the end. There are some other versions of this kind of thing, but they tend to edit the clips together while I wanted to do a true side by side comparison. Notable other versions are    • "Side-by-side" comparison: Zero Hour! (195...   and    • Airplane (1980) Vs. Zero Hour (1957). (Sid...   And do check out the original movies, they are always worth a watch! Movies are Airplane! (1980), Zero Hour! (1957), and the bonus comparison was Crash Landing (1958). -- How about buying me a coffee, or a pint of Watney’s Red? - You can here - https://ko-fi.com/doctorrandom