Its Excitement is Headed Straight For You!

Starring: James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch, Hardy Krüger, Ernest Borgnine, Ian Bannen, Ronald Fraser, Christian Marquand, Dan Duryea, George Kennedy

DML Rating: ★★★★★★★★☆☆ - great

"All right, then, it can't work. Maybe it can't and we'll all be killed. But if there's just one chance in a thousand that he's got something, boy, I'd rather take it than just sit around here waiting to die." - Lew Moran

Why watch this? This is quite an adventure of survival.

Plot Summary: A plane carrying oil workers crash-lands in the vast Sahara Desert, leaving the survivors with dwindling supplies and no hope of immediate rescue. Facing a brutal environment and mounting tensions, a German airplane designer among the passengers proposes a seemingly impossible plan: to rebuild a new plane using the wreckage of their crashed aircraft. With their lives at stake, the desperate group must overcome their differences and work together to construct this makeshift aircraft in a race against time before their resources run out.

Dad's Preview: This splendid ensemble cast plays out all scenarios regarding survival. These men are stuck in an impossible situation: their plane has crash landed in the Sahara desert. They quickly calculate their resources and how long they can survive. Jimmy Stewart and Richard Attenborough are excellent as the group's leaders, however the most compelling character is Dorfmann, a German aeronautical engineer, portrayed by Hardy Krüger. He is cold and calculating (as are most German characters), but he just may be their best shot at getting back to safety. This arid survival film will satisfy your thirst for adventure, but keep a glass of water nearby.

Associates and Aldrich Company Production; 20th Century Fox