The Flight of the Phoenix
MovieTitle | The Flight of the Phoenix |
User score | 7.2 |
Release date | Dec 15, 1965 |
Genre | Adventure, Drama |
Director | Robert Aldrich |
Production country | United States of America |
Production companies | The Associates & Aldrich Company, 20th Century Fox |
Budget | $5,355,000 |
Run time | 142 min. |
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.