Paramount Home Media has tabbed July 21 as the
street date for the studio’s latest addition to its “Paramount Presents” line
of up-graded Blu-ray products.
Airplane! has
been selected to be the seventh title in the series, which kicked off on Apr.
21 with Blu-ray spiffed-up editions of Fatal
Attraction, King
Creole and To Catch
a Thief.
With air travel in chaos these days it might be time
for a good laugh about just that, chaos in the skies. Back in 1980, the directing tandem of Jim
Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker delivered a rat-a-tat-tat tale of epic
proportions — filled with a zillion sight gags and a plethora of dazzling
one-liners — as former pilot Ted Striker (Robert Hays), terrified of
flying, has to take over when Capt. Oveur (Peter Graves) and the rest of flight
crew are stricken with food poisoning!!
Everyone tries to help, including his former
girlfriend Elaine, who, as luck would have it is a flight attendant on this
very flight. It is going to be tough
getting Striker down … the pressure builds and the tower supervisor, Steve
McCroskey (Lloyd Bridges), is quick to point out that it is the “wrong week to
quit smoking … drinking … doing amphetamines … sniffing glue.”
Bonus features including filmmaker commentary, a
newly-prepared Q & A with Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker and
the newly-minted featurette titled “Filmmaker Focus: Airplane!”
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