The Flight of the Phoenix
“Theirs was the triumph - yours, the excitement!”
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
16 people
James Stewart
Frank Towns
Known for
Rear Window
Vertigo
Richard Attenborough
Lew Moran
Known for
Jurassic Park
The Great Escape
Peter Finch
Captain Harris
Known for
Network
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Hardy Krüger
Heinrich Dorfmann
Known for
Barry Lyndon
Hatari!
Ernest Borgnine
Trucker Cobb
Known for
Escape from New York
Jesus of Nazareth
Ian Bannen
Crow
Known for
Jesus of Nazareth
Waking Ned
Ronald Fraser
Sergeant Watson
Known for
The Wild Geese
The Killing of Sister George
Christian Marquand
Dr. Renaud
Known for
Senso
...And God Created Woman
Dan Duryea
Standish
Known for
Scarlet Street
Winchester '73
George Kennedy
Bellamy
Known for
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
Cool Hand Luke
Gabriele Tinti
Gabriel
Known for
Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez
Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals
Alex Montoya
Carlos
Known for
The Appaloosa
Robert Aldrich Director · Lukas Heller Screenplay Trevor Dudley-Smith Author
Worldwide gross $3M · Budget $5.4M · United States release December 15, 1965
Box office
Budget
$5,355,000
Worldwide gross
$3,000,000
Gross vs. budget
0.6×
Production
The Associates & Aldrich Company
Production
20th Century Fox
Production
20th Century Studios
Studio · Production
Associates & Aldrich Company, The
Production
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · December 15, 1965
Theatrical
Australia
March 9, 2010 · Physical · DVD
France
May 25, 1966 · Theatrical
Germany
March 18, 1966 · Theatrical
Japan
June 18, 1966 · Theatrical
Netherlands
May 3, 2004 · Physical · DVD
September 12, 2016 · Physical · Blu-ray
United Kingdom
January 20, 1966 · Theatrical · London
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