El vuelo del Fénix

Título original: The Flight of the Phoenix

1965
TP
2h 22min

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After a plane crash in the Sahara, one of the survivors says he's an airplane designer and they can make a flyable plane from the wreckage.

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Survival Adventure Drama

Tras un accidente de avión en el Sáhara, uno de los supervivientes dice que es diseñador de aviones y que pueden hacer un avión que vuele a partir de los restos.Tras un accidente de avión en el Sáhara, uno de los supervivientes dice que es diseñador de aviones y que pueden hacer un avión que vuele a partir de los restos.Tras un accidente de avión en el Sáhara, uno de los supervivientes dice que es diseñador de aviones y que pueden hacer un avión que vuele a partir de los restos.

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Nominado para 2 premios Óscar
- 6 nominaciones en total

Curiosidades
The Phoenix's take-off was considered too dangerous to stage at the sandy filming location (its actual take-off was from a smoothed, compacted-earth runway), so legendary stunt pilot Paul Mantz was asked to do a "touch-and-go" landing in which he came in low, skimmed his landing gear along the ground, then throttled up to gain altitude, merely simulating a take-off. On the second take, as the landing gear made contact with the ground, the plane's aft boom fractured, causing the aircraft to nose into the ground and cartwheel, killing Mantz. As the second take had merely been a "protection shot," with the necessary footage captured during the first attempt, a vintage North American O-47A observation plane from an air museum was substituted for the remaining necessary close-ups.

Pifias
The airflow over the wings would be so compromised by the wind shields and the men behind them that the plane would simply not fly. Indeed, the Phoenix stunt plane built for the film suffered severe aerodynamic drag from the dummies that were put on the wing to simulate the passengers. The dummies had to be replaced with thin plywood silhouettes erected parallel to the fuselage that did not obstruct the airflow.

Citas
Heinrich Dorfmann: Mr. Towns, you behave as if stupidity were a virtue. Why is that?

Créditos adicionales
Closing credits epilogue: IT SHOULD BE REMEMBERED...

THAT PAUL MANTZ, A FINE MAN AND A BRILLIANT FLYER GAVE HIS LIFE IN THE MAKING OF THIS FILM...

Conexiones
Featured in Film Preview: Episodio #1.4 (1966)

Banda sonora
The Phoenix Love Theme
Senza Fine"
Sung by Connie Francis
Music & Italian Lyrics by Gino Paoli
English Lyrics by Alec Wilder

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7/10

Proper film-making: tough, masculine, unashamedly old-fashioned

THE FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX is a classic tale of derring-do and adventure, a sort of DIRTY DOZEN style movie in which a group of stranded survivors find themselves trapped in a hostile desert and must use their wits in order to survive. It's a tale of bravery, heroism and cowardice in equal measure, as each man must come to terms with what he can do in order to survive, and it's a perfect lesson of how working as a group can always outdo individual effort.

The film is well-shot by Robert Aldrich, who brings the sandy locales to life, even if the studio-shot bits are fairly obvious in comparison to the genuine location shooting. The cast is full of solid, tough guy talent: Ernest Borgnine, Ian Bannen, Ronald Fraser, Peter Finch, George Kennedy and Richard Attenborough are fine, but it's Jimmy Stewart who headlines and holds things together as the old hand. Hardy Kruger bags the most interesting role as the engineer, and how many films about engineering are this gripping? I can't think of any others if I'm honest.

A word of warning: avoid the horrid remake, which just slavishly copies the plot of this film but does everything wrong. I think the most annoying thing about it was the casting director's choice to put the inferior Dennis Quaid into the Jimmy Stewart role. I mean, what were they thinking?