Towns initially resists Dorfmann's plan, though Renaud sways his opinion, saying activity and hope will help sustain the men's morale. The argument is complicated by a personality clash between Towns, a proud traditionalist aviator, and Dorfmann, a young arrogant engineer. Harris and Moran believe he is either joking or delusional. Dorfmann wants to attach the outer sections of both wings to the left engine and left boom, discarding the center fuselage and both inner wing sections of the aircraft. The C-82 has twin booms extending rearwards from each engine and connected by the horizontal stabilizer. Meanwhile, Dorfmann proposes a radical idea: building a new aircraft from the wreckage. Watson discovers and then ignores him, though others later find him. Days later, Harris returns to the crash site alone and barely alive. Harris and Towns refuse to allow the mentally unstable Cobb go along, but Cobb defiantly follows anyway and later dies of exposure in the desert. Watson feigns an injury to stay behind, Carlos volunteers, leaving his pet monkey with Crow. Captain Harris sets out to try and find an oasis. Aboard the plane is a large quantity of pitted dates but only enough water for ten to fifteen days if rationed. The radio is unusable, and the survivors are too far off course to be found by searchers. As the aircraft comes to a stop, two workers are killed and Gabriel's leg is severely injured. There are also several oil workers, including Trucker Cobb, a foreman suffering from mental fatigue Ratbags Crow, a cocky Scot Carlos and his pet monkey and Gabriel.Ī sudden sandstorm disables the engines, forcing Towns to crash-land in the desert. Renaud, a French physician Heinrich Dorfmann, a German aeronautical engineer and an oil company accountant named Standish. The Flight of the Phoenix was remade in 2004, titled as Flight of the Phoenix.įrank Towns is the pilot of a twin-engine Fairchild C-82 Packet cargo plane flying from Jaghbub to Benghazi in Libya Lew Moran is the navigator. Hardy Krüger was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, and Aldrich was nominated for Best Motion Picture – Drama. It was nominated for two Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actor for Bannen and Best Editing for Michael Luciano. Though the film was not a financial success, it was well-received by critics, who praised Aldrich’s direction and the performances of its cast.
It stars an ensemble cast, with James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch, Hardy Krüger, Ernest Borgnine, Ian Bannen, Ronald Fraser, Christian Marquand, Dan Duryea and George Kennedy. The story follows a small group of men struggling to survive their aircraft's emergency landing in the Sahara desert. The Flight of the Phoenix is a 1965 American survival drama film produced and directed by Robert Aldrich, based on the 1964 novel of the same name by English author Elleston Trevor. $3 million (around $18.9 million in 2019 value) (US/Canada rentals) : 230
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