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Actors: James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch, Hardy Krüger, Ernest Borgnine, Ian Bannen, George Kennedy, Ronald Fraser
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Flight of the Phoenix |
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A group of men, taking a break from their job in Arabia, board a small plane which then crashes in the middle of the desert.
This simple plot opening begins a suspensful tale with a fascinating collection of characters who must work together to survive. The Captain, (Jimmy Stewart), a crusty ex military pilot and his British navigator, (Richard Attenborough), head up a multicultural group of laborors and military men who together devise a seemingly impossible manner to escape the desert while battling the ravages of the inhospitable Arabian desert.
--Claudia, Resident Scholar
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THE FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX is a movie directed by Robert Aldrich in 1965. The picture earned two nominations, in the Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Ian Bannen) and in the Best Film Editing categories for the 1966 Academy Awards.
Pilot James Stewart and his plane get caught in a sand storm and Stewart must operate an emergency landing in the middle of the Sahara desert. Among the eleven passengers still alive, there is Hardy Krüger, a german engineer, who proposes to build another plane from the pieces of the crashed airplane. As water runs law and men died from exhaustion, the relation between Krüger and Stewart, the young genius in technics and the old experienced pilot, becomes tougher.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 10%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 50%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Wilderness adventure
Yes
Plotlets:
- surviving natural elements
Disaster, big vehicle
Yes
Kind of vehicle:
- plane
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- pilot, civilian
Age:
- 40's-50's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- blonde
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- irritated
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
- hard edged
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
- blonde
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
- (man) short/standard curly
Body type
- average build (man)
- fat (man)
How much in movie?
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
- German
Main Adversary
Identity:
- natural phenomena
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 90%-100%
Hair color
- blonde
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- German
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- average physique
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Setting
Africa
Yes
Part of Africa:
- Arabic Africa
Desert?
Yes
Desert:
- dying of thirst, sunburn
- hostile arabs
- funny heat-delusions
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- very happy
- challenged
How many deaths in film?
- 4-8
Kind of violence:
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- crushed
- perforation--bullets
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
Is this movie based on a
- book
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