THE GOOD - This certainly sports an all-star cast with Jimmy Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch, Hardy Krueger, Ernest Borgnine and Dan Duryea. It's well-acted and well- written, making the characters fairly interesting guys. If you enjoy stage plays, you'll like this.
THE BAD - I don't like talky stage plays, and that's what this is, even though the scenario is out in the desert, with a bunch of guys trying to cope under tough conditions after their cargo plane goes down in a sandstorm over the Saraha desert.
It turns out to be two hours and 20-some minutes of a bunch of bickering guys, along with character studies of each man. The most disappointing of all was Stewart's "Captain Frank Towns," another bitter irreverent guy like he played in "Shenandoah," (another '60s film, by the way.) Of course, the cliché of having the German guy (Hardy Krueger playing "Heinrich Dorfmann") as the worst character, is also in here.
I made it through one viewing of this testosterone soaper, thanks to the "good news" written above, but I have no desire to ever sit through this again. It wasn't THAT interesting!
THE BAD - I don't like talky stage plays, and that's what this is, even though the scenario is out in the desert, with a bunch of guys trying to cope under tough conditions after their cargo plane goes down in a sandstorm over the Saraha desert.
It turns out to be two hours and 20-some minutes of a bunch of bickering guys, along with character studies of each man. The most disappointing of all was Stewart's "Captain Frank Towns," another bitter irreverent guy like he played in "Shenandoah," (another '60s film, by the way.) Of course, the cliché of having the German guy (Hardy Krueger playing "Heinrich Dorfmann") as the worst character, is also in here.
I made it through one viewing of this testosterone soaper, thanks to the "good news" written above, but I have no desire to ever sit through this again. It wasn't THAT interesting!