Everybody knows that Airplane! was based on a pioneering 1957 disaster movie – but it’s far from being the only other version of that story.

Everybody knows that Airplane! was based on a pioneering 1957 disaster movie – but it’s far from being the only other version of that story.
These swash-buckling epics represent the last gasp of ambitious adult cinema.
The ill-judged legal case that opened the floodgates to X-rated space opera parodies.
The wild world of the adult copycat film.
The X-Rated parody genre heads in ever more strange and unusual directions.
The ubiquitous appeal to a stiff upper lip has long outstayed its welcome.