The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)

NR12/15/1965Adventure, Drama2h 22m
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Theirs was the triumph - yours, the excitement!

Overview

A cargo aircraft crashes in a sandstorm in the Sahara with less than a dozen men on board. One of the passengers is an airplane designer who comes up with the idea of ripping off the undamaged wing and using it as the basis for a replacement aircraft they need to build before their food and water run out.

Top Billed Cast

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    James Stewart

    Capt. Frank Towns

  2. Cast 1

    Richard Attenborough

    Lew Moran

  3. Cast 1

    Peter Finch

    Capt. Harris

  4. Cast 1

    Hardy Krüger

    Heinrich Dorfmann

  5. Cast 1

    Ernest Borgnine

    Trucker Cobb

  6. Cast 1

    Ian Bannen

    Crow

  7. Cast 1

    Ronald Fraser

    Sergeant Watson

  8. Cast 1

    Christian Marquand

    Dr. Renaud

  9. Cast 1

    Dan Duryea

    Standish

Absorbing character piece that's acted accordingly. A transport aeroplane carrying an assortment of men crash lands in the Sahara desert, these men must group together in spite of their varying indifference's and build another plane out of the wreckage. It perhaps, on the surface, doesn't sound much does it? We as viewers are asked to spend over two hours watching these men interact with each other with differing results. The location stays the same, it is just sand, sun, and men awaiting death. Yet the film is one of the best exponents of the character piece because the characters each ...