Movie Details
- Status: Released
- Movie Tagline: Theirs was the triumph – yours, the excitement!
- Genres: Adventure
- Release Date: 1965-12-15
- Runtime: 142.0 min
- Budget: $5.4 million
- Revenue: Not Available
- Production Companies: 20th Century Fox, The Associates & Aldrich Company
Cast & Crew
James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch, Hardy Krüger, Ernest Borgnine, Ian Bannen, Ronald Fraser, Christian Marquand, Dan Duryea, George Kennedy, Gabriele Tinti, Alex Montoya, Peter Bravos, William Aldrich, Barrie Chase
Synopsis – What to Expect from “The Flight of the Phoenix”
The Flight of the Phoenix is a 1965 American drama film directed by Robert Aldrich and starring James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch, Hardy Krüger, Ernest Borgnine, George Kennedy, and Ian Bannen.
The film is based on the 1964 novel The Flight of the Phoenix by Elleston Trevor and tells the story of a group of oil-drilling workers in the Sahara Desert who crash-land their plane in the desert. After the crash, they must find a way to survive the harsh environment and repair the plane in order to escape.
The story begins with a group of oil-drilling workers, led by Captain Harris (James Stewart), flying in a small plane across the Sahara Desert. Suddenly, the plane runs into a sandstorm and crashes in the desert. The survivors of the crash, which include Harris, American engineer Frank Towns (Richard Attenborough), German engineer Heinrich Dorfmann (Hardy Krüger), British doctor Renaud (Peter Finch), and a few other workers, are stranded in the desert with no hope of rescue.
The group soon learns that the only way to survive is to repair the plane and fly it out of the desert. Towns and Dorfmann come up with the idea of constructing a new plane out of the wreckage of the old one, and the group sets to work building the new plane.
The construction of the new plane is a difficult task, and the
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