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The Flight of the Phoenix (1965 film) Quotes

The Flight of the Phoenix (1965 film) is a television program that was first aired in 1970 . The Flight of the Phoenix completed its run in 1970.

It features Robert Aldrich as producer, Frank De Vol in charge of musical score, and Joseph F. Biroc as head of cinematography.

The Flight of the Phoenix (1965 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of The Flight of the Phoenix (1965 film) is 142 minutes long. The Flight of the Phoenix (1965 film) is distributed by 20th Century Fox.

The cast includes: Hardy Krüger as Heinrich Dorfmann, James Stewart as Frank Towns, Richard Attenborough as Lew Moran, and Dan Duryea as Standish.

The Flight of the Phoenix (1965 film) Quotes

Richard Attenborough as Lew Moran

  • (Richard Attenborough) "You told Towns he was behaving as if stupidity was a virtue. If he's making it into a virtue, YOU'RE MAKING IT INTO A BLOODY SCIENCE."
  • (Richard Attenborough) "I don't know what your practical navigation's like, but mine's not bad. I wouldn't march ten paces from here. In the daytime it's hitting a hundred and twenty in the shade, and out there, there is no shade."
  • (Richard Attenborough) "Maybe Frank Towns, who's flown every crate they've ever built and could fly in and out of a tennis court if he had to, maybe that great hell-for-leather trailblazer's nothing more than a back number now. And maybe men like Dorfmann can build machines that can do Frank Towns's job for him, and do it better"
  • (Richard Attenborough) "Three stinkin' mud huts and a poisoned well. That's not a place, it's a disease."
  • (Richard Attenborough) "If you marched a hundred and six miles by the stars and your calculations were just one per cent out, you could pass the Eiffel Tower in daylight and never even see it."

Dan Duryea as Standish

  • (Dan Duryea) "Insurance companies move in mysterious ways. Much like god -- only far less generous."
  • (Dan Duryea) "The sandstorm'll make it more difficult, won't it?"
  • (Unnamed) "What? Find us? Nah, it'll simplify things no end, old chap. They'll just bloody give up. Oh, you're not frightened, are ya? You don't want to be despondent, old man, you know. Wait till the water runs out. Then you'll really start laughing."

James Stewart as Frank Towns

  • (James Stewart) "I've lost five men, Lew. Gabriel in there, he's on the way, that'll be six. Are you asking me to try to kill the rest of them trying to get a deathtrap off the ground. I don't know -- I don't know, Lew. It won't work -- it just can't work."
  • (Richard Attenborough) "All right, then, it can't. 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."
  • (James Stewart) "Your theory's fine, but you get this mister -- that engine's rated at two thousand horsepower and if I was ever fool enough to let it get started up it'd shake your patched-up pile of junk into a thousand pieces, and cut us up into mincemeat with the propeller."

Hardy Krüger as Heinrich Dorfmann

  • (Hardy Krüger) "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."
  • (Hardy Krüger) "Gentlemen, I have been examining this aeroplane."
  • (James Stewart) "Yeah?"
  • (Hardy Krüger) "Yes. We've everything we need here to build a new one and fly it out. Now, if you'd like to have a look at my calculations, I don't know whether you can read my handwriting."
  • (James Stewart) "Are you trying to be funny?"
  • (Hardy Krüger) "What did you say?"
  • (James Stewart) "I said, are you trying to be funny?"
  • (Hardy Krüger) "That is precisely the reaction I would have expected from a man of your obvious limitations."
  • (Unnamed) "Sometimes I wonder how you chaps never won the war."
  • (Hardy Krüger) "War?"
  • (Hardy Krüger) "I wasn't involved."
  • (Unnamed) "That's it then. That's why they never won."
  • (Unnamed) "They didn't have old Heinrich."

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