not horrible nor great

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

A film made in 1965 with such great idea about the desert, the plane crash, the survivors, 5 men and 1 woman. It showed to us one funny but quite realistic possibility: No matter how the situation might be tough, a single woman, especially a pretty one, among a majority of men, lust would be an even tougher thing to be suppressed when hormone and testosterone were once fulfilled with some food; once your stomach was full, the next thing you thought about was sex. But there always got some exceptions, the older guys, for example in this film, finding food and trying to get help from outside, not wanting to die in the desert, seemed to be more important than sex. The funny thing this film showed to me was there's still some guys would like to have sex first when they were facing the uncertainty of survival. This is a very good film, well scripted, directed and performed by some A-list actors in that era. It's also a very tough film to shoot by the production crew and to play roles in the desert and under the blazing sun. I totally enjoyed watching this film.

We saw this on TV, twice, back in the mid 60's... around 67 or 68, I think it was a "Saturday, Sunday or Monday Night at the Movies"...I had recently thought of this movie, and thought it was part of "Flight of the Phoenix" with Jimmie Stewart... or another movie... I have not seen or thought about it for around 50 years. So, my muddled brain was not sure... I got it for a friend, and we might watch it tonight or soon.My friend and I remember the part about the Baboons mostly.It has some very intense scenes. I remember it as a "good" movie... we shall see how it holds up.

I saw this movie in the 60s, right after it came out. It blew me away. I've been thinking about it, talking about it, and telling people about it, ever since. I recently bought a (not very high- quality) DVD. Unlike some films or books that impacted us at some time in our lives, but then didn't hold up later, this movie was everything I remembered. It's an amazing, intriguing, surprising, shocking story, and raises a million questions about survival, civilization and its veneers, gender issues, madness. It's possible that it's a story which will mean more to men than women, but I'm not positive about that. See it with friends, then talk about it over glasses of cold water.

I have to agree with Freddy from Melbourne. I saw this movie at the Route 3 Drive-in, East Rutherford NJ at age 16, and it made me forget my teenage hormones. The scenery and cinematography were still superb, considering the size of the Drive-In screen. It was one of those flicks that had to be watched without distraction. Yet,I have never seen it on TV, and except for those who saw it with me, and my younger sister, I have never met anyone who viewed it in any medium. I can't seem to find it on VHS or DVD, maybe I will have to do some more Internet searching. I saw "Flight of the Phoenix" at the same Drive-In, and I have to agree, the publicity for that was way more than "Sands". Durn shame. I am not hoping for a remake of it, though.