The Flight of the Phoenix poster
Director Robert Aldrich
Screenplay Lukas Heller

The Flight of the Phoenix

Tagline: Theirs was the triumph - yours, the excitement!

Release Date: 1965-12-15

Duration: 142 minutes

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.

Casting

  • Ernest Borgnine
    Trucker Cobb
  • James Stewart
    Capt. Frank Towns
  • George Kennedy
    Bellamy
  • Richard Attenborough
    Lew Moran
  • Gabriele Tinti
    Gabriel
  • Dan Duryea
    Standish
  • Christian Marquand
    Dr. Renaud
  • Ian Bannen
    Crow
  • Peter Finch
    Capt. Harris
  • Ronald Fraser
    Sergeant Watson