Plot SynopsisAfter the credits of the cast roll, an Epigram is presented:THE MEDIATOR BETWEEN HEAD AND HANDS MUST BE THE HEART!The city of Metropolis appears with an opening montage - superimpositions of a gigantic machine of pumping machine pistons, flywheels, a rotating crankshaft, and an off-center disk - all parts hrusting, moving, pounding and turning.Looking up, he saw scaffolding decorated with various dolls and in the middle of them, doll-like Greta (with blood dripping from a stomach wound) imploringly begging for his help, as Freddy scopped his clawed finger into her torso: "Is she delicious or am I crazy?" He shoved her off the platform and like a porcelain doll, she crashed onto the floor and exploded into pieces at Mark""s feet.Then, everyone heard the sound of the main elevator ascending out of the bunker - Miguel had commandeered it (and ripped apart the control box on the wall).There were at least four inspirational sources forAirplane""splot:Flight into Danger (1956)- an episode of the 1950s Canadian TV showEncounterZero Hour! (1957),from director Hal Bartlett, starring Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, and Sterling Hayden; with a script by Arthur Hailey, who was later responsible for the screenplay forAirport (1970), based upon his own best-selling 1968 novel of the same nameThe Crowded Sky (1960), segmentsTerror in the Sky (1971), a CBS-TV movie, a remake ofZero Hour!The storyline of a distressed airliner was an excuse for a frantic, slapstick parody filled with visual-sight gags, puns, deadpan and absurdist humor, gross-outs, sexual double entendres, verbal literalism ("Surely you can""t be serious.It was filmed in his favorite locale - Monument Valley in northern Arizona, in only forty-five days.The film""s title was not chosen in honor of any of the central characters or the shoot-out, but after the name of Earp""s civilizing, female acquaintance in the own of Tombstone.