The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)

“(DVD) In this one and "Dirty dozen", Aldrich helped to redefine action star packed extreme achievement film. To build a model airplane from a wrecked one and leave the desert...schematism in characters, but strong actor and well crafted tension scenes, flows...” read more

List of (real) film accidents/deaths (53 movies items)

"On 8 July 1965, pilot Paul Mantz crashed and was killed on a second take making a low pass."

A New Decade! A New Year! Movies Watched In 2020 (641 movies items)

"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 will build to escape before their food and water run out. A slightly implausible, overlong, almost real time survivalist procedure movie which has an all-star cast. This movie is just full of imperfect characters, clashing ideals and personali"

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Moviewatcher122's 2016 Film Diary: March (43 movies items)

"March 1 "I've lost five men, Lew. Gabriel in there, he's on the way, that'll be six. Are you asking me to try to kill the rest of them trying to get a deathtrap off the ground. I don't know... I don't know, Lew. It won't work... it just can't work." "All right, then, it can't. Maybe it can't and we'll all be killed. But if there's just one chance in a thousand that he's got something, boy, I'd rather take it than just sit around here waiting to die." George Kennedy's death really took me by "