Story Line
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.
“Theirs was the triumph - yours, the excitement!”
Top Cast
James Stewart
Frank Towns
Richard Attenborough
Lew Moran
Peter Finch
Captain Harris
Hardy Krüger
Heinrich Dorfmann
Ernest Borgnine
Trucker Cobb
Ian Bannen
Crow
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Rating
7.2/ 10
Release Date
1965-12-15
Runtime
2h 22m
Genres
AdventureDrama
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User Reviews (3)
John Chard
8/10
•8/28/2014Absorbing 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 wre...
drystyx
No rating•4/18/2023
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 Stewa...
CinemaSerf
7/10
•9/5/2024Jimmy 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...