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The Flight of the Phoenix

Name: The Flight of the Phoenix
Director: Robert Aldrich
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Released: 1965
Rating: 7.2
Cast: James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch, Hardy Krüger, Ernest Borgnine

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.

1965 · Directed by Robert Aldrich · 142 min · Adventure · Drama · 21 frames

Tagline

Theirs was the triumph - yours, the excitement!

Crew

Screenplay: Lukas Heller
Cinematography: Joseph F. Biroc
Edited by: Michael Luciano
Music: Frank De Vol
Produced by: Robert Aldrich

Cast

James Stewart as Frank Towns
Richard Attenborough as Lew Moran
Peter Finch as Captain 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

Production

Country: United States of America
Language: English
Studios: The Associates & Aldrich Company, 20th Century Fox
Budget: $5,355,000
Themes: thirst, affectation, pilot, sahara desert, crew, disaster, airplane crash, desert, alcoholic, angry

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