There are plane movies—the sort that you might want to watch when you're stuck in the middle seat of a long flight—and then there are plane movies that are actually about planes. Given how a lot of ...

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Leslie Nielsen got his start as a serious dramatic actor, but he ended up known as one of the best comic actors working in Hollywood, and has some of the greatest movie lines in comedy history.