The read
A Balasaur Score of 77 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 7.5/10, Rotten Tomatoes 86%. Scores higher than 88% of the 220 1960s adventure movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes86%
389 audience votes
Key crew
- Robert AldrichDirector
- Lukas HellerScreenplay
- Frank De VolOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- James StewartFrank Towns
- Richard AttenboroughLew Moran
- Peter FinchCaptain Harris
- Hardy KrügerHeinrich Dorfmann
- Ernest BorgnineTrucker Cobb
- Ian BannenCrow
- Ronald FraserSergeant Watson
- Christian MarquandDr. Renaud
- Dan DuryeaStandish
- George KennedyBellamy
- Gabriele TintiGabriel
- Alex MontoyaCarlos
Stills
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Themes
thirstaffectationpilotsahara desertcrewdisasterairplane crashdesertalcoholicangrycandidabsurd
The Best Movies of 1965
The Flight of the Phoenix is #19 of 60
