Review – The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)

Few films have ever managed to make human survival look like such a loathsome prospect. Here the lives of the survivors of a plane crash depend on their ability to cobble the wreckage into a new, improvised craft that will fly them out of the desert. Or to be more precise, their lives depend on their ability to stop bickering with one another for five minutes at a time. Honestly, by midway through I was hoping for the death of just about everyone involved. Jimmy Stewart heads an all-semi-star cast. Mildly amusing