The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
Directed by Robert Aldrich
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.
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I’m not asking for an optimistic reprieve, the horrid nature of man is more than well documented, for as long as men keep making films, there will always be men in the wild flexing their masculinity: The Martian, The Grey, Alive, 127 Hours, The Edge, Cast Away, The Way Back, Into the Wild, The Road, All Is Lost and The Flight of the Phoenix .
Credit three people mainly with the film's success: E.M. Nathanson for his novel on which the movie is based (screenplay by Nunnally Johnson and Lukas Heller), Nathanson saying that while it was fiction, he was inspired by legends of such things actually taking place; director Robert Aldrich, an old hand at action thrillers with movies like "Kiss Me Deadly," "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?," "The Flight of the Phoenix," "Emperor of the North," and "The Longest Yard" to his credit; and Lee Marvin, a former Marine riding high as an Oscar winner for "Cat Ballou" two years earlier and "Point Blank" the same year.