Flight of the Phoenix
When an oil rig in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia proves unproductive, an aircraft crew are sent to shut the operation down and fly them out. On the flight out over the desert on the way to Beijing, Capt. Frank Towns and co-pilot A.J. are unable to keep their cargo plane, a C-119 Flying Boxcar, in the air when a violent sandstorm strikes. Crash-landing in a remote uncharted part of the desert, the two pilots and their… From TMDB
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60 of 74 · most liked first#JulyMovieChallenge #filmsky #moviesky @omacolt.bsky.social Day 17: Plane crash FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX Twice made film of a plane crashing in a desert, with the crew rebuilding the plane to get to safety. Recently made in 2004 starring Dennis Quaid
unlabelledView post →My last 4 watched: Eyes Of Laura Mars (1978) Flight Of The Phoenix (1965) Angel Face (1952) Breaking Away (1979) Real talk: Breaking Away is so goddamn good. Its fingerprints are all over every coming-of-age film that came after it. Masterpiece! 🎬🍿📽️ #letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched #filmsky
unlabelledView post →#JulyMovieChallenge 7/17 Plane crash in a movie The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) A group of men struggle to survive after a crash landing in the Sahara. #filmsky 📽️ #moviesky
unlabelledView post →Flight Of The Phoenix|2004 www.imdb.com/title/tt0377... 📽️ #NowWatching #filmsky ·survivors of a plane crash in the Mongolian desert work together to build a new plane·
unlabelledView post →#BOTD 1928 Ian Edmund Bannen: Scottish actor with a long career in film, on stage, and on television. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance in The Flight of the Phoenix (1965), the first Scottish actor to receive the honour.
unlabelledView post →'The Flight of the Phoenix'(1965), a great film, the making of which sadly claimed the life of the great stunt pilot Paul Mantz. www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0hI...
unlabelledView post →Jared in "Flight of the Phoenix" Funfact: The actor who he shares the titlecard with is the hunter Tim from SPN 5x3 "Free to be you and me" who forcefeeds Sam the demonblood. And the song is from the movie, so I kept it for the edit.
unlabelledView post →I remember looking him up to find out who he was when I saw the movie and his name stuck with me ever since then! He was one of the reasons I finally watched SPN. (I’d never heard of Jensen in 2022 and only had ever seen Jared in Flight of the Phoenix).
unlabelledView post →An intense survival drama with good character dynamics. Definitely worth checking out. (Free on YouTube) My ★★★★ review of The Flight of the Phoenix on Letterboxd boxd.it/9d1x5f #filmsky
unlabelledView post →Criterion Flash Sale I could only afford to get one movie so I picked 8 movies I wanted assigned them a number and rolled the 8 sided dice. Flight of the Phoenix by Robert Aldrich with sweet Sean Phillips cover art was the winner #Filmsky
unlabelledView post →#Octobermoviechallenge #Moviesky #Filmsky #Movies 10/7 Something Assembled In A Movie The Flight Of The Phoenix [1965] [a plane assembled from parts after a crash landing]
unlabelledView post →#Bales2026MovieChallenge #MovieSky #FilmSky #nightflight Day 13: Movie Set in Mongolia (Mongolian Independence Day 1921) Flight of the Phoenix (2004)
unlabelledView post →Ian Bannen was a big film actor (Flight of the Phoenix, notably) who isn't as well remembered today. His Jim Prideaux is intense and a bit frightening; kind of a monster.
unlabelledView post →Can't beat The African Queen. Bogey and Hepburn make that movie. Flight of the Phoenix - ok it was made in 65, but still one of the classics.....and the cast was perfect.
unlabelledView post →12:40pm TODAY on @Legend__Channel The 1965 #Adventure film🎥 “The Flight of the Phoenix” directed by Robert Aldrich from Lukas Heller’s screenplay Based on Elleston Trevor’s 1964 novel📖 🌟 James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Hardy Krüger, Peter Finch, Ernest Borgnine, Ian Bannon, Ronald Fraser
unlabelledView post →It’s got to be Flight of the Phoenix (The original with Beloved Jimmy Stewart ) The remake is a stark reminder why no film should have a remake.
unlabelledView post →Happy Birthday Jimmy Stewart! 🎂 My favorite film of his, just because it shocked me completely when I saw it on TV as a kid. “The Flight of the Phoenix”
unlabelledView post →12 April 1928 – 2022 Hardy Krüger, 93, German actor. Film debut (1944) - #WW2 Service (age 18) - The One That Got Away (1957) * Blind Date * Hatari! * The Flight of the Phoenix * The Secret of Santa Vittoria * Barry Lyndon * A Bridge Too Far * The Wild Geese * War and Remembrance (1988–89)
unlabelledView post →I just finished watching THE FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX (1965 - Jimmy Stewart, Richard Attenborough). I didn't know that the stunt pilot for the film, Paul Mantz, passed away during filming...flying a plane that really was hobbled together.
unlabelledView post →The 2004 Flight of the Phoenix is on Disney, but do yourself a favor and watch the 1964 movie instead
unlabelledView post →I can really recommend it. I had it mixed up in my mind with a completely different film (The Flight of the Phoenix). Funny how that happens sometimes.
unlabelledView post →The Mantz association, is a sad one, as you know. From the article: 'Stewart recalled The Flight of the Phoenix “with a mixture of pleasure and sadness”, the latter owing to the death of semi-retired 62-year-old veteran film stunt pilot Paul Mantz.' The human cost of aviation films has been high.
unlabelledView post →There's new FILM FREAKS FOREVER podcast winging its way to you! In this installment, we discuss THE AIRLINE DISASTER GENRE! Fasten your seatbelts and listen! Including THE FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
unlabelledView post →Flight of the Phoenix is a great film not everybody has seen. youtu.be/OUyP-qIdzJk?...
unlabelledView post →A great film from each year of the 60s: 1960 Sink the Bismarck! 1961 Whistle Down the Wind 1962 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1963 The Leopard 1964 The Train 1965 The Flight of the Phoenix 1966 Andrei Rublev 1967 Cool Hand Luke 1968 The Lion in Winter 1969 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie #FilmSky
unlabelledView post →Now Watching 📽️The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)📽️ 🎬Directed by: Robert Aldrich Starring: ⭐James Stewart ⭐Richard Attenborough ⭐Peter Finch ⭐Hardy Krüger ⭐Ernest Borgnine ⭐Ian Bannen ⭐Ronald Fraser ⭐Christian Marquand ⭐Dan Duryea ⭐George Kennedy ⭐Alex Montoya ⭐Barrie Chase Free on YouTube!!! #FilmSky
unlabelledView post →Just watching large aircraft engine cold start ups on YouTube like you do. It reminded me of the 1965 version of The Flight of the Phoenix where James Stewart was trying to start the engine and wasted a starting cartridge on purpose to clear the engine valves at his colleague's dismay. Great film!
unlabelledView post →Film-wise: at 6.50pm, Flight Of The Phoenix on Film4. At 9pm, The Woman King on Film4, Ulzana’s Raid on Great Action or Da Vinci Code on 5Star. At 11.10pm, Outlaw on Legend. At 11.20pm, Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children on Film4. At 11.45pm, The Krays on BBC1 #telly
unlabelledView post →I watched Plane. I was expecting basically an update of Flight of the Phoenix but most of the movie they weren't on the plane!
unlabelledView post →I was really surprised because for a long time I thought it was a survival game like the movie Alive or The Flight of the Phoenix, and I was happy that it turned out to be a political thriller. Also, the Spanish voice acting sounds pretty good (opinion of someone who isn't a native Spanish speaker)
unlabelledView post →It comes up on TCM.com regularly including many others like Midnight Cowboy, Apocalypse Now is on now. Log in with your tv provider watch old movies. I watched Jimmy Stewart’s “Flight Of The Phoenix” recently, 2001, The Great Santini and Tender Mercies I never saw. 🍻
unlabelledView post →I wish Disney+ will add the classic 20th Century Studios film: THE FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX with James Stewart, Peter Finch, Richard Attenborough, Ernest Borgnine and George Kennedy since it didn't added in 6 years ago. #TCMParty #DisneyPlus #FlightOfThePhoenix
unlabelledView post →You know that movie Flight of the Phoenix? You know what would make it even cooler? If it was about an elevator.
unlabelledView post →I always think of "Sole Survivor" when I see "Flight of the Phoenix" referenced. Great made-for-tv movie about a bomber crew crashed in the desert, slowly coming to terms with their fate: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ylE...
unlabelledView post →2:20pm TODAY on @Legend__Channel The 1965 #Adventure film🎥 “The Flight of the Phoenix” directed by Robert Aldrich from Lukas Heller’s screenplay Based on Elleston Trevor’s 1964 novel📖 🌟 James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Hardy Krüger, Peter Finch, Ernest Borgnine, Ian Bannon, Ronald Fraser
unlabelledView post →Film-wise: at 6.50, Flight of the Phoenix on Film4. At 8pm, The World Is Not Enough on ITV4. At 9pm, Papillon on Great Action. At 10.40, The Lost World: Jurassic Park on ITV4. At 11.25, The Claim on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social. At 11.30, The Road Dance on BBC2. At 11.35, Anaconda on Film4 #telly
unlabelledView post →Film-wise: at 6.55pm, Groundhog Day on Film4. At 9pm, Tomorrow Never Dies on ITV4 or Flight of the Phoenix on Great Movies. At 10.50pm, Apollo 11 on Sky Documentaries. At 11.05pm, John Wick 3 on Film4. At 11.30, Penny Serenade on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social. At 1.40am, Love, Simon on Film4 #telly
unlabelledView post →O' even if you haven't. You have. Below is like Flight of the Phoenix in that there have been riffs on it on film and tv ever since ... like the Star Trek OST ep Balance of Terror = Enemy Below.
unlabelledView post →Yeah I had no interest going to see that film either and I like Dennis Quaid as an actor. Although not for the terrible Flight of the Phoenix remake.
unlabelledView post →Never heard of this movie. Apparently not a box office success. Reminds me of 'The Flight of the Phoenix'(1965) but with B-29 on the high seas!
unlabelledView post →Frank knew what it was and told it like it is. Excellent quote, thanks RC! Not a Zappa quote, but along the same lines from the old (1960s) movie "The Flight of the Phoenix" that I've used down through the years when I lose patience with some numbnuts: "You treat stupidity as if it were a virtue!"
unlabelledView post →The remake of Flight of the Phoenix is a pretty good movie.
unlabelledView post →Friday afternoon couch and throw blanket movie 😀👍 The Flight Of The Phoenix - 1965 - James Stewart https://youtu.be/1P1kPvsA6dM
unlabelledView post →Tbh Behind Enemy Lines & Flight of the Phoenix are perfectly average. His others… I didn’t realize he’d directed a film after DIE HARD 5 in 2013.
unlabelledView post →And since I was discussing Flight of the Phoenix, here's some Outkast, used in the film. #00smusic #Outkast #HeyYa youtube.com/watch?v=PWgv...
unlabelledView post →The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) Directed by Robert Aldrich https://onesheet.org/movie/the-flight-of-the-phoenix-1965/
unlabelledView post →Ronald Fraser was a ubiquitous fixture of British film & television. That's him on the left with Jimmy Stewart, filming Flight of the Phoenix. A local lad, from Ashton-under-Lyne, who loved a beverage and kept bohemian company; Sean Connery and Peter O'Toole carried him to his final resting place.
unlabelledView post →The (movie) Flight of the Phoenix 1080p (iTunes)(AU) AU$4.99 (Action) (iMDB) 6.4 Cast: Dennis Quaid, Tyrese Gibson, Giovanni Ribisi, Miranda Otto, Tony Curran, Sticky Fingaz
unlabelledView post →Boy did you wreck that ship! but that scenario sounds like an old movie. Last Flight of the Phoenix Jimmy Stewart's plane crashes in Sahara. And the have to rebuild the plane with one engine to survive
unlabelledView post →First-time watch: The Flight of the Phoenix (1965), on TCM—another triumph for director Robert Aldrich. For me, the MVP of the film is Richard Attenborough, who I had the great pleasure of interviewing in 1985.
unlabelledView post →Film-wise: at 6.50pm, Flight Of The Phoenix on Film4. At 9pm, Knock at the Cabin on Film4, No Escape on Sky Max or Transformers: Dark Of The Moon on TLC. At 10.30pm, The Commandant’s Shadow on Sky Documentaries. At 10.55pm, Glass on Film4. At 11pm, Defiance on BBC2 #telly
unlabelledView post →There is a worse major studio film than the Quaid version of Flight of the Phoenix - I just haven’t seen it yet. #FilmFour
unlabelledView post →Tonight, Sam made sticky teriyaki drumsticks, sautéed bok choy, and quick Asian pickles all over rice. We wanted a bird with some heat to go with our evening movie—the 1965 Flight of the Phoenix with Jimmy Stewart—so it paired nicely. Some soju kept the evening mellow.
unlabelledView post →Watching The Flight Of The Phoenix with Jimmy Stewart. What an incredible movie!
unlabelledView post →Imho, one extremely memorable film with one of the most incredible music supervisors is Flight of the Phoenix (2004) Normally, I love composed soundtracks...but for this film the track choice was phenomenal. Brilliant use of the understated Angel by Massive Attack.
unlabelledView post →Ordinarily I prefer to write a bunch of comments describing what each chunk of code is going to do, then write the code between them. This was a bit of a special case, though. Proper "Flight of the Phoenix" stuff. The original movie, I mean.
unlabelledView post →How about a "James Stewart is ANGRY" film series? Here are three films that I can think where Stewart is angry: Winchester '73, The Naked Spur, Flight of the Phoenix
unlabelledView post →Out Now: Issue 59 continues with the Remakes Tribunal featuring Alan Bayles. On trial: the 2004 remake of this month's Classic, Flight of the Phoenix. Plus our Parole Board film The Wicked Lady. Could a remake fix that mess? 📽️ #filmsky www.podbean.com/ea/pb-jhzph-...
unlabelledView post →Adds some insight into this film. "The Flight of the Phoenix (1965 film)" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fli...
unlabelledView post →Fly into the world of Flight of the Phoenix characters with our top 10 list! Explore their stories and the impact they have on this film! ✈🏜 #Movies #FlightofthePhoenix #GiovanniRibisi #DennisQuaid #Characters #Top10
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