The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
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UPC: 024543075455
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“(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
"On 8 July 1965, pilot Paul Mantz crashed and was killed on a second take making a low pass."
"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"