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15/12/1965 Adventure, Drama 2h 22m
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Theirs was the triumph - yours, the excitement!

Overview

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.

  1. Robert Aldrich

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. James Stewart

    Frank Towns

  2. Richard Attenborough

    Lew Moran

  3. Peter Finch

    Captain Harris

  4. Hardy Krüger

    Heinrich Dorfmann

  5. Ernest Borgnine

    Trucker Cobb

  6. Ian Bannen

    Crow

  7. Ronald Fraser

    Sergeant Watson

  8. Christian Marquand

    Dr. Renaud

  9. Dan Duryea

    Standish

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2024-09-05
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 tautly directed series of escapades as the personalities of crew and passengers clash; the desert takes it's toll on the sanity of some, the Bedouin on the lives of others - but can t...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$5,355,000.00

Revenue
$0.00

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