The Flight of the Phoenix

London: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1966. Two vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1966 UK release of the 1965 US film. Mimeograph snipes and rubber-stamps on the versos, cropping annotations on the recto of 1 still.

One of the great adventure films of the twentieth century, wherein a cargo plane with fewer than a dozen men goes down in the Sahara in a sandstorm. One of the men is an airplane designer who comes up with the idea of ripping off the undamaged wing and using it as the basis for an airplane they will build to escape before food and water are depleted.

A story set in the Sahara desert, shot on location in California and Arizona.

8 x 10 inches. About Near Fine.

[Book #132843]