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The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
Directed by Robert Aldrich
“Theirs was the triumph - yours, the excitement!”
Adventure, Drama · 2h 22m
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.
Cast
James Stewart
Frank Towns
Richard Attenborough
Lew Moran
Peter Finch
Captain Harris
Hardy Krüger
Heinrich Dorfmann
Ernest Borgnine
Trucker Cobb
Ian Bannen
Crow
Ronald Fraser
Sergeant Watson
Christian Marquand
Dr. Renaud
Dan Duryea
Standish
George Kennedy
Bellamy
Gabriele Tinti
Gabriel
A
Alex Montoya
Carlos
Crew
- Director
- Robert Aldrich
- Screenplay
- Lukas Heller
- Novel
- Trevor Dudley-Smith
- Director of Photography
- Joseph F. Biroc
- Original Music Composer
- Frank De Vol
- Editor
- Michael Luciano
- Producer
- Robert Aldrich
Details
- Release date
- 1965-12-15
- Runtime
- 2h 22m
- Genres
- Adventure, Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- The Associates & Aldrich Company, 20th Century Fox
- Budget
- $5,355,000