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Movie Facts

Status: Released

Runtime: 142

Budget: -

Revenue: -

Language: en

Webpage: -

Release Info

  • 1965-12-15
     -

  • 1966-03-18
     12

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Alternative Titles

  • Der Flug des Phoenix
Content Score: 100

6.1/10 (16 votes)

Overview

A cargo plane goes down 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 an airplane they will build to escape before their food and water run out.

Tagline

Theirs was the triumph - yours, the excitement!

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Director: Robert Aldrich
Writers: ,

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Cast

James Stewart

James Stewart
as Capt. Frank Towns

Richard Attenborough

Richard Attenborough
as Lew Moran

Peter Finch

Peter Finch
as Capt. Harris

Hardy Krüger

Hardy Krüger
as Heinrich Dorfmann

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A review by 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 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 h... read the rest.

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