George Peppard
Lt. Bruno Stachel
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The Blue Max is a 1966 war 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. The plot is about a German fighter pilot on the Western Front during World War I.
The Blue Max: Directed by John Guillermin. With George Peppard, James Mason, Ursula Andress, Jeremy Kemp. A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambitiously to earn the medal offered for 20 kills.
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- Action, Drama, Romance
- John Guillermin
- 1966-06-21
Lt. Bruno Stachel (George Peppard), a brash German World War I fighter pilot, is driven to shoot down 20 enemy planes, thus garnering him the Blue Max, a coveted medal.
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- George Peppard
- John Guillermin
- War
The tactics of a German fighter pilot offend his aristocratic comrades but win him his country's most honored medal, the Blue Max. The General finds him useful as a hero even though his wife also finds him useful as a love object.
Overview. A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambitiously to earn the medal offered for 20 kills. John Guillermin. Director. Gerald Hanley.
The Blue Max is a rousing WW1 aviation epic filmed on a lavish scale in Ireland with an English and American crew. Its tale of the first air aces has been updated from the old Errol Flynn and Howard Hawks "Dawn Patrol" formula with a cynical attitude toward the 'chivalrous' image of the glorious flying aces, in this case Germans hoping to ...
A lowborn World War I German ace covets a medal of honor and his highborn commander's wife. 1,695 IMDb 7.1 2 h 32 min 1966. X-Ray 13+.
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