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| The Flight Of The Phoenix [1965] | ![The Flight Of The Phoenix [1965]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5104XQK61CL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Robert Aldrich
Actors: James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch, Hardy Kruger, Ernest Borgnine
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Sales Rank: 11525
Format: Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Parental Guidance
Media: DVD
Running Time: 136 minutes
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Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
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Release Date: April 17, 2006
Theatrical Release Date: 1965
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It isn't about the plane June 25, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a great film about men in adversity - and one of James Stewart's finest roles. The flying is very short, and mostly done before the opening credits (a very 60's device, the particular style of which dates the film). Once the plane is down and the cast is marrooned in the desert, traditional relationships break down as British army officer Peter Finch is undermined by his sergeant (Ronnie Frazer in his best ever role). Also the efficient and technocratic Hardy Kruger and guilt-ridden 'seat of your pants' flyer James Stewart clash as Richard Attenborough acts as a desparate referee. Meanwhile Ian Bannen undermines everybody.br /It is hard to fault the acting, the filming or the script. The score is a bit 'Budget Lawrence of Arabia', but this shouldn't put you off.br /The tragedy of this film is that the real Phoenix, built and flown by Paul Mantz, struck a skid into a small undulation whilst making a low flight through the take off zone for extra film footage. The aircraft virtually somersaulted, broke its fuselage and Paul Mantz was crushed by the engine and killed. A similar but fatter plane doubled for a distant shot, and no landing is shown.br /The star of this film is the situation and the interplay between the characters.br /This is a film that probably worked even better when Hardy Kruger's Germanness was a challenge to UK and US audiences (most war films of the period stereotyped the Germans), but if you imagine this film into the post WW2 period, it will work for you.br /Needs to be in any serious collection.
This one flies! June 8, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Offering the last really gritty role for Stewart before he settled into his `loveable gramps' era, 1965's The Flight of the Phoenix may run some 36 minutes longer than the disappointingly tame 2004 remake, but it feels half as long thanks to an engrossing script and a take-no-prisoners attitude from director Robert Aldrich that's a million miles away from the feelgood approach the studio took second time round. Rather than pulling together, as it becomes increasingly clear that the survivors of a plane crash in the North African desert are not going to be rescued, Aldrich sets his flawed protagonists at each others throats in a hostile environment that is driving them mad, with even his nominal hero increasingly turning his guilt at crashing off-course into anger at his passengers. The result is a compelling adventure drama with the gloves off. br /br /Stuck in a place where even nepotism can't save you - the director's son William Aldrich and son-in-law Peter Bravos don't even make it past the credits sequence - Stewart's old-school pilot who has remembered everything and learned nothing soon finds himself at odds with Hardy Kruger's aircraft designer who comes up with the idea of building a new plane out of the parts of the old one. One making virtue out of stupidity while the other makes it a science, their clash of egos becomes far more important to each man than their possible survival. That it works is largely down to the contrast between Stewart's bitterness and Hardy Kruger's superb performance as the utterly ruthless, almost Nazi-like designer who calculates who will live and who will die and who unfortunately is all the more grating a personality for always being right. As Stewart points out, he's not concerned with getting out or saving lives, merely with proving his design will fly. And even if you already know it, the big revelation about his character in the last act is still one heck of a sucker punch. br /br /Although the two men gradually occupy center-stage, there's an impressive supporting cast, with fine performances from Richard Attenborough's co-pilot, Peter Finch's by the book British Army officer and Christian Marquand's doctor, as well as solid turns from Ian Bannen, Ronald Fraser, Ernest Borgnine and George Kennedy (getting in some practice for all those Airport movies), although Dan Duryea, reunited with his old Anthony Mann Western sparring partner Stewart, gets the short end of the stick as the timid accountant who names the plane (though the two men did engage on a series of escalating practical jokes on the set). Amusingly Aldrich goes where Ken Hyman and Sidney Lumet refused in The Hill and adds a hallucination of an Arab dancing girl and a memorable love theme (Senza Fine, reused by Billy Wilder in Avanti) to help sell his testosterone-heavy tale as a love story in the trailers! A terrific movie, the only downside is that stunt pilot Paul Mantz died filming the film's finale. br /br /Fox's Region 2 DVD offers a fine widescreen transfer but no extras (at least the R1 disc offered the the theatrical trailer). br /br / br /
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