Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 142 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
A cargo aircraft crashes in a sandstorm in the Sahara with less than a dozen men on board. One of the passengers is an airplane designer who comes up with the idea of ripping off the undamaged wing and using it as the basis for a replacement aircraft they need to build before their food and water run out.
- thirst
- affectation
- pilot
- sahara desert
- crew
- disaster
- airplane crash
- desert
- alcoholic
- angry
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
James Stewart
Frank Towns
Richard Attenborough
Lew Moran
Peter Finch
Captain Harris
Hardy Krüger
Heinrich Dorfmann
- Ernest Borgnine — Trucker Cobb
- Ian Bannen — Crow
- Ronald Fraser — Sergeant Watson
- Christian Marquand — Dr. Renaud
- Dan Duryea — Standish
- George Kennedy — Bellamy
- Gabriele Tinti — Gabriel
- Alex Montoya — Carlos
- Peter Bravos — Tasso
- William Aldrich — Bill
- Barrie Chase — Farida
- Directed
- Robert Aldrich
- Written
- Lukas Heller
Production
- Rating
- 7.2 / 10 · 375 ratings
- Studio
- The Associates & Aldrich Company, 20th Century Fox
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