The Flight of the Phoenix

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

James Stewart Frank Towns

Richard Attenborough Lew Moran

Peter Finch Captain Harris

Hardy Krüger Heinrich Dorfmann

Ernest Borgnine Trucker Cobb