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Line 1: {{work}} [[File:220px-The_Flight_of_the_Phoenix_-_1965_-_Poster_2233.png\|frame\|Poster for the 1965 film]] {{quote\|'''Heinrich Dorfmann:''' I told you there would be no difficulty in building this aeroplane. I also told you it would require an outstanding pilot to fly it. The only thing outstanding about you, Mr. Towns, is your stupidity.}} ''[[The Flight of the Phoenix]]'' is a 1965 [[The Film of the Book]] about the crew and passengers of a downed plane in the Sahara desert who, once realizing that rescue is not coming, [[The Great Repair\|attempt to build a smaller airplane]] out of the remaining parts of their aircraft. The 1965 film was quite popular, garnering Academy Award nominations for best supporting actor (Ian Bannen) and film editing. The 2004 [[Remake]] (listed at the bottom of this page) was not as well received. Line 25 ⟶ 24: * [[Dirty Coward]]: Sgt. Watson. {{spoiler\|He [[Karma Houdini\|survives,]] too.}} * [[Fanservice Extra]]: The above belly dancing trope. The hallucination is the only woman in the entire movie, and was advertised on the poster despite her one-minute scene. * [[Floating Head Syndrome]]: The [https://web.archive.org/web/20130518080402/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/03/Flight_of_the_Phoenix_%281965%29.jpg DVD release cover]. * [[The Great Repair]]: The main plot. * [[Idiot Ball]]: Captain Towns and Lew, being ''pilots'' and all, shouldn't have been so shocked that the principles of flying model aircraft and full size aircraft are the same - [[Tropes Are Tools\|but the tension needed to be there]]. Line 54 ⟶ 53: [[Category:Films of the 2000s]] [[Category:The Flight of the Phoenix]] [[Category:Multiple Works Need Separate Pages]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Flight of the Phoenix, The}} [[Category:Film]]