The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) | |
| Director(s) | Robert Aldrich |
| Producer(s) | Robert Aldrich, Walter Blake (associate) |
| Top Genres | Adventure, Drama, Film Adaptation |
| Top Topics | Aviation, Book-Based |
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The Flight of the Phoenix Overview:
The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) was a Adventure - Drama Film directed by Robert Aldrich and produced by Robert Aldrich and Walter Blake.
Academy Awards 1965 --- Ceremony Number 38 (source: AMPAS)
| Award | Recipient | Result |
| Best Supporting Actor | Ian Bannen | Nominated |
| Best Film Editing | Michael Luciano | Nominated |
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"The Flight of the Phoenix" Soars
By Rick29 on Sep 14, 2013 From Classic Film & TV CafeDirector Robert Aldrich bookends The Flight of the Phoenix with a wild airplane crash and an exhilarating climax. But it’s the drama in-between that makes the film so engrossing: the friction among the survivors, their audacious plan to reach civilization again, and a brilliant plot twist tha... Read full article
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Quotes from
Frank Towns:
Your theory's fine, but you get this mister... that engine's rated at two thousand horsepower and if I was ever fool enough to let it get started up it'd shake your patched-up pile of junk into a thousand pieces, and cut us up into mincemeat with the propeller.
Frank Towns: If you hadn't made a career out of being a drunk you might not have been a second-rate navigator in a firth-rate outfit. And if you'd not stayed in your bunk to kill that last bottle, maybe you might have checked that engineer's report on the radio and we might not be here now. All right!
Lew Moran: [of an alternate destination] Three stinkin' mud huts and a poisoned well. That's not a place, it's a disease.
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Frank Towns: If you hadn't made a career out of being a drunk you might not have been a second-rate navigator in a firth-rate outfit. And if you'd not stayed in your bunk to kill that last bottle, maybe you might have checked that engineer's report on the radio and we might not be here now. All right!
Lew Moran: [of an alternate destination] Three stinkin' mud huts and a poisoned well. That's not a place, it's a disease.
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Facts about
In the Italian version the song "Senza fine" is the original one, sung by the singer Ornella Vanoni.
Dummies on the wings were found to blank the control surfaces, so silhouettes of the wing-passengers were used instead.
Director Robert Aldrich's son (William Aldrich) and son-in-law (Peter Bravos) are the first two casualties in the film, killed by falling cargo during the opening credits as the disabled plane is descending for its crash-landing.
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Dummies on the wings were found to blank the control surfaces, so silhouettes of the wing-passengers were used instead.
Director Robert Aldrich's son (William Aldrich) and son-in-law (Peter Bravos) are the first two casualties in the film, killed by falling cargo during the opening credits as the disabled plane is descending for its crash-landing.
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