Directed by: Robert Aldrich
Stars: James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch
Language: English | Subtitles: English (embed)
Country: Usa | Imdb Info | Ar: 1.85:1 | Brrip
Description: After an oil company plane crashes in the Sahara, the survivors’ hopes are buoyed by one of the passengers, an airplane designer who comes up with a plan to build a flyable plane from the wreckage.
Preview
7.61GB | 142:02mins | 1920×1040 | mkv | English | Sub: English
https://tezfiles.com/file/1d28076512c44/The.Flight.of.the.Phoenix.1965.mkv
English Subtitle
https://tezfiles.com/file/76493af312f95/The.Flight.of.the.Phoenix.1965.srt
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Robert Aldrich and The Flight of The Phoenix” 2022 conversation with filmmaker Walter Hill and film scholar Alain Silver
70MB | 19:16mins | 720×576 | mp4 | English
https://tezfiles.com/file/ffb3982834f33/Thflg.Robert.mp4
The Actor and The Bomber Pilot” 2022 interview with biographer Donald Dewey
68MB | 18:07mins | 720×576 | mp4 | English
https://tezfiles.com/file/f2c73929006b2/Thflg.Donald.mp4
Together we stand divided we fall (as a human race) allegory after a devastating WW2, but in the world of movies War usually translates to action, Peace to sleeper. The end pic in preview reminds me of the Fokker Eindecker in The Blue Max (1966), highly cinematic, also available by RL…
Criterion has an edition out, I see. Is this movie of particular interest? It may be, I don’t know. I used to get the feeling Criterion put out exceptional “choice” titles, but that they later also started releasing second tier movies, albeit probably carefully transferred and interestingly dealt with, academically.
I recall this as being clearly superior to the later remake version — a hardly uncommon occurence. Many remakes seem to be mainly to offer a crop of stars more familiar to a younger, later generation audience. It’s rare that a remake can equal or surpass the original. For that to happen, the original would have to have had serious technical or budgetary limitations holding them back, or the original filmmakers screwed up badly somehow, major missed opportunities — something like that.