“Airplane” is a movie that feeds off other movies and it begins, as did “1941,” by borrowing that ominous-sounding music that heralded each public appearance of the shark in “Jaws.” This time, as the ...

“Can you fly this plane and land it?” asks a physician named Dr. Rumack after food poisoning fells the flight crew of a jet heading from Los Angeles to Chicago. “Surely you can’t be serious,” says Ted ...