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.| Status: | Released (1965-12-15) |
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| Awards: | Nominated for 2 Oscars. 6 nominations total |
| Screen: | Lukas Heller, Elleston Trevor |
| Productions: | The Associates & Aldrich Company, 20th Century Fox |
| Production Countries: | United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | English |
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Casts
- 854: James Stewart - Capt. Frank Towns
- 4786: Richard Attenborough - Lew Moran
- 29903: Peter Finch - Capt. Harris
- 37777: Hardy Krüger - Heinrich Dorfmann
- 7502: Ernest Borgnine - Trucker Cobb
- 2481: Ian Bannen - Crow
- 51881: Ronald Fraser - Sergeant Watson
Crews
- 18392: Robert Aldrich - Director - Directing
- 21600: Lukas Heller - Screenplay - Writing
- 67777: Trevor Dudley-Smith - Novel - Writing
- 18392: Robert Aldrich - Producer - Production
- 21011: Frank De Vol - Original Music Composer - Sound
- 14431: Joseph F. Biroc - Director of Photography - Camera
- 21781: Michael Luciano - Editor - Editing
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Reviews
John Chard
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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 surfa ....
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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 responsi ....
Continue reading ->CinemaSerf
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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" ( ....
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