or this ...Most likely the "film" you have in mind is Bomber's Moon. A Playhouse 90 production that was directed by John Frankenheimer, written by Rod Serling and featured Martin Balsam, Robert Cummings, Cliff Robertson, Rip Torn among others. It was filmed in 1958 around an actual wrecked B-25 in the Mojave Desert. A complete work of fiction it was however "inspired" by the then recent discovery of a B-24 wreck from WWII. Found in the Africa desert, the crew lost its way returning from a night mission. One by one, all of the crew bailed out right before the plane ran out of fuel. A crewman's diary related a chilling story of their vain attempts to survive the Sahara