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The Flight of the Phoenix is a 1965 American survival drama film produced and directed by Robert Aldrich, based on the 1964 novel of the same name by English author Elleston Trevor. [3] The story follows a small group of men struggling to survive their aircraft's emergency landing in the Sahara.
With James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch, Hardy Krüger. After an oil company plane crashes in the Sahara, the survivors' hopes are buoyed by one of the passengers, an airplane designer who comes up with a plan to build a flyable plane from the wreckage.
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- Adventure, Drama
- Robert Aldrich
- 1965-12-15
Synopsis. Frank Towns, pilot of an oil field cargo-passenger plane, crashes in the North African desert. The crash is the fault of the alcoholic navigator, Lew Moran, who neglected to check the radio, which is now broken.
- Robert Aldrich
- James Stewart
Tense tale about a group of men who are left stranded in the middle of the Arabian desert after a plane crash. Their only hope of survival is to rebuild the craft so that, phoenix-like, she may...
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- James Stewart
- Robert Aldrich
- Adventure
Directed with characteristic punch by Hollywood iconoclast Robert Aldrich, The Flight of the Phoenix balances adventure with human drama as it conducts a surprising and complex examination of authority, honor, and camaraderie among desperate men.
- Frank Towns
A routine flight in an old flying box car with a broken radio, carrying a group of tired men and worn out tools, encounters a fierce sand storm in the Sahara desert. The men are hundreds of miles from rescue, and nobody knows where they are.
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Mar 22, 2022 · A few minutes into Robert Aldrich’s epic 1965 disaster film The Flight of the Phoenix, we find ourselves in the cockpit of an airplane with James Stewart’s veteran pilot, Frank Towns, who is talking about the fun and adventure of flying as it used to be, before the new world of science and standardization took over.
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