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The Flight of the Phoenix

Theirs was the triumph - yours, the excitement!

7.2(393)19652h 22m5

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.

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Status
Released
Budget
$5.4M
Box office
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Language
English
  • thirst
  • affectation
  • pilot
  • sahara desert
  • crew
  • disaster
  • airplane crash
  • desert
  • alcoholic
  • angry
  • candid
  • absurd

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United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalNR15 Dec 1965
  • United KingdomGB

    • TheatricalPGLondon20 Jan 1966
  • AustraliaAU

    • PhysicalPGDVD9 Mar 2010
  • FranceFR

    • TheatricalTP25 May 1966
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical1218 Mar 1966
  • JapanJP

    • TheatricalPG1218 Jun 1966
  • NetherlandsNL

    • PhysicalDVD3 May 2004
    • PhysicalBlu-ray12 Sept 2016

Frequently asked questions

The Flight of the Phoenix was released on 15 December 1965.

Audience reviews

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  • J

    John Chard

    8/28/2014

    8/10

    Absorbing character piece that's acted accordingly. A transport aeroplane carrying an assortment of men crash lands in the Sahara desert, these men must group together in spite of their varying indifference's and build another plane out of the wreckage. It perhaps, on the surface, doesn't sound much does it? We as viewers are asked to spend over two hours watching these men interact with each other with differi…

  • D

    drystyx

    4/18/2023

    A true classic. 14 men on a small low budget plane working for an oil company that cares as much about their employees as one might expect. So, the plane goes down in the middle of the desert, and the twelve survivors just wait to die. James Stewart is the pilot who feels responsible, but so does his navigator played by Richard Attenborough. Meanwhile, we wonder about the other characters. We expect Ernest Borgni…

  • C

    CinemaSerf

    9/5/2024

    7/10

    Jimmy Stewart is "Towns" who flies his dilapidated aircraft around the North African oilfields. When once such trip ends in a crash, they find themselves stuck in the desert short of water, and of ideas as to how to get themselves home. Until that is, the rather superior "Dorfmann" (Hardy Krüger) concocts a plan to perform industrial surgery on the wreckage and maybe get them airborne again. What now ensues is a taut…

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