Robert Aldrich's tense and exciting thriller tells the story of air-crash survivors who, with death imminent, are forced to try and build a single-engine aircraft from the wreckage of their plane in order to escape from their crash-site in the north African desert.
The tight script, subtle direction and superb ensemble cast - James Stewart (pictured, left), Richard Attenborough (pictured, right), and Ernest Borgnine - make this an excellent action movie, worthy of anyone's all-time classics list.
Flight of the Phoenix is a Film programme that first aired in 1966 and has been classified a PG certificate.
