Nicholson: I understand how you feel.Of course, it""s normally the duty of a captured soldier to attempt escape.But my men and I are involved in a curious legal point of which you are unaware.In Singapore, we were ordered to surrender by Command Headquarters, ordered, mind you.Therefore, in our case, escape might well be an infraction of military law.Interesting?Dr.Clipton: Yes, interesting point.Shears: I""m sorry sir.I didn""t quite follow you.You mean you intend o uphold the letter of the law, no matter what it costs.Nicholson: Without law, Commander, there is no civilization.Shears: You just took my point.Here, there is no civilization.Nicholson: Then, we have the opportunity to introduce it.I suggest hat we drop the subject of escape.As an English gentleman, Nicholson insists that his men be treated as soldiers and that the officers serve only in supervisory capacities, according to the military code of behavior: "I want everything to go off without a hitch starting first thing tomorrow morning.They meet with Frenchy (Mike Starr), an Air France cargo worker, and plan a "big score" of "bags of money" coming in "from tourists and American servicemen who change their money over into French money and send it back here.The historic medical procedure was attended and witnessed by US generals, who were told that a new "Weapon X"" was being created.But they were incapacitated by Storm (who warned: "Do you know what happens to a Toad when it""s struck by lightning? The same thing that happens to everything else") and by Logan, who stabbed his opponent.Filming took only a little more than a month, on a budget of $3.5 million, with a whopping domestic revenue take of $83.4 million.It was followed by a less funny ZAZ-lessAirplane II: The Sequel (1982)by director Ken Finkleman.After the success ofAirplane! (1980), ZAZ followed up with:Top Secret! (1984)- a spoof of espionage moviesRuthless People (1986)- an adaptation of an O.