The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)2h22
Adventure · Drama
Director Robert Aldrich (7.2 avg)
Also directed The Dirty Dozen, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Kiss Me Deadly, and 27 more
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.
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Cast
James Stewart
Richard Attenborough
Peter Finch
Hardy Krüger
Ernest Borgnine
Ian Bannen
Ronald Fraser
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