The Blue Max (1966)

Directed by

John Guillermin

Genre

adventure film, war film

Country

United Kingdom, United States

Runtime

2h 36m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 120 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A German fighter pilot fights for his own glory on the Western Front during World War I. He disregards his comrades and the old rules of war to earn his country's highest medal.

tensebleakslow-burnunsentimentalmelancholicgrittycynical

What happens

The Blue Max is a 1966 WW I film directed by John Guillermin and starring George Peppard, James Mason, Ursula Andress, Karl Michael Vogler, and Jeremy Kemp. The film was made in DeLuxe Color and was one of the last movies filmed in CinemaScope. It was filmed entirely in Ireland, and included numerous location scenes shot in Dublin, Wicklow and Cork. The plot is about German fighter pilot Bruno Stachel on the Western Front during World War I. The screenplay was written by David Pursall, Jack Seddon, and Gerald Hanley, based on the novel of the same name by Jack D. Hunter as adapted by Ben Barzman and Basilio Franchina. In contrast to films that romanticize the flying aces of the Great War, The Blue Max depicts the protagonist Stachel as a man who appears to have no regard for anyone but himself. Set against the realities of modern warfare, the film also explores the decline of chivalry and the advent of total war. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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