The Flight of the Phoenix

Action, Adventure, Drama

James Stewart	Capt. Frank Towns
Richard Attenborough	Lew Moran
Peter Finch	Capt. Harris
Hardy Krüger	Heinrich Dorfmann
William Aldrich	Bill
Ian Bannen	Crow
Ernest Borgnine	E. Cobb
Peter Bravos	Tasso
Barrie Chase	Farida
Dan Duryea	Standish

Director	Robert Aldrich
Producer	Robert Aldrich; Walter Blake
Writer	Lukas Heller; Trevor Dudley Smith

A dramatic plane crash in the Sahara desert sets the scene for Flight of the Phoenix. The passengers, mainly workers travelling between oil fields in the desert, are left stranded on the dunes with a fast diminishing supply of water and only the wreckage of the plane providing shelter from the sun. It is up to the pilot (James Stewart) and the navigator (Richard Attenborough) to keep morale up, while one quiet member of the group, Heinrich Dorfmann (Hardy Kruger), having revealed himself as an aeronautical engineer, begins the almost impossible task of building a new plane from the wreckage of the old.