The Flight of the Phoenix
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.
Cast
James Stewart
as Capt. Frank Towns
Richard Attenborough
as Lew Moran
Peter Finch
as Capt. Harris
Hardy Krüger
as Heinrich Dorfmann
Ernest Borgnine
as Trucker Cobb
Ian Bannen
as Crow
Ronald Fraser
as Sergeant Watson
Christian Marquand
as Dr. Renaud
Dan Duryea
as Standish
George Kennedy
as Bellamy
Reviews
John Chard
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 soun...
drystyx
A true classic. 14 men on a small low budget plane working for an oil company that cares as much about their employees as one might expect. So, the plane goes down in the middle of the desert, and the twelve survivors just wait to die. James Stewart is the pilot who feels responsible, but so does...
CinemaSerf
Jimmy Stewart is "Towns" who flies his dilapidated aircraft around the North African oilfields. When once such trip ends in a crash, they find themselves stuck in the desert short of water, and of ideas as to how to get themselves home. Until that is, the rather superior "Dorfmann" (Hardy Krüger) co...
