The Flight of the Phoenix
Dec 15 1965
•2h 22m
•Adventure, Drama
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
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James Stewart
Capt. Frank Towns
Richard Attenborough
Lew Moran
Peter Finch
Capt. Harris
Hardy Krüger
Heinrich Dorfmann
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