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December 2001

Help me out, what movie am I thinking of? (Seen on tv 10 years or so ago.)

Situation: a group of men, crashed in the desert. One man convinces the others he can build a plane to fly them all to safety. Which gets their hopes up, then down, as someone confronts him: "We didn't know you've only built toy planes?!"

To which he responds: "A toy plane is something you wind up and let ride on the ground!" (Meaning his miniature planes are not toys, because they actually fly.)



huphtur wrote on 2001/12/01:
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0059183


milov wrote on 2001/12/01:
"Flight of the Phoenix"
Wow, that's the one! From 1965 even (older than I thought).


huphtur wrote on 2001/12/01:
never seen it... is it good?


milov wrote on 2001/12/01:
Gets a 7.6 on imdb, which is very good... And it certainly left an impression on me, seeing as I remembered it still.


caster wrote on 2001/12/01:
yeah..great stuff.been on uk telly loads over the years,wasn't donald
pleasance or stanley bakerin it??


huphtur wrote on 2001/12/01:
cool... ill go rent it then
prolly not on dvd
so gotta rent good old vhs
which sux
cuz ya gotta rewind those


huphtur wrote on 2004/11/26:
check this milo: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0377062/


Milo wrote on 2004/11/26:
Wow. Hope it'll be good. So did you ever see the original after writing your earlier comment three years ago? I have yet to watch it again myself... :)


huphtur wrote on 2004/11/26:
no, my local video store doesn't carry it. but a friend of mine got netflix, so i will give her a list of movies te rent.

i actually have a huge list, maybe i should get netflix myself.