The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)


James Stewart           Frank Towns
Richard Attenborough    Lew Moran
Peter Finch             Captain Harris
Hardy Kruger            Heinrich Dorfmann
Ernest Borgnine         Trucker Cobb
Ian Bannen              Crow
Ronald Fraser           Sgt Watson
Christian Marquand      Dr Renaud
Dan Duryea              Standish
George Kennedy          Bellamy
Gabriele Tinti          Gabriele
Alex Montoya            Carlos
Peter Bravos            Tasso
William Aldrich         Bill
Barrie Chase            Farida
Stanley Ralph Ross      Arab Singer

Directed by:            Robert Aldrich
Produced by:            Robert Aldrich


When their plane crashes in the Sahara desert, the survivors - some businessmen and some 
British military officers - must find a way to survive the sun, the lack of water, and 
marauding Arabs. Somehow, they manage to repair the plane, using one engine, and take the 
risk that it will get them out of there. 

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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.