Aces High (film)
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Bruno Stachel is a lower ranked pilot in Germany's World War 1 air force, he dreams of winning The Blue Max, a prestigious medal given to pilots after 20 confirmed kills. As he rises thru the ranks, and his determination grows, he fails to earn respect from is comrades and more importantly, his superiors.
100% Tomatometer 6 Reviews 76% Audience Score 2,500+ Ratings Lt. Bruno Stachel (George Peppard), a brash German World War I fighter pilot, is driven to shoot down 20 enemy planes, thus garnering...
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On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 100% based on reviews from 6 critics, with an average rating of 6.1/10. Filmink called it "a sports movie at heart." Box office. The Blue Max was a financial success at the box office, earning $5 million in North American rentals in 1966.
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.
May 14, 2022 · It seems like a good time to revisit one of the films I regard as the gold standard for “modern” recreations of air to air combat, 1966’s “The Blue Max.”
Apr 28, 2006 · The Blue Max Review. Bruno Stachel, a lower-class hotshot pilot, rises through the ranks of the German air force in World War One, earning the hatred of his own comrades as much as the enemy,...
Reviews. Dec 31, 1965 11:00pm PT. The Blue Max is a World War I drama [from a novel by Jack D. Hunter, adapted by Ben Barzman and Basilio Franchina] with some exciting aerial combat sequences...
Review by George Max Madonis ♊ ★★★ A robust - if decisively overlong - aviation spectacle, surprisingly based on a book and not on an actual flying ace of the Great War, about the death rattle of European chivalry and the rise of cynical photo-ops during wartime.
Review by Craig Butler. Anyone looking for simply stunning aerial action sequences need look no further than The Blue Max, in which such sequences are among the finest ever captured on film.
Sep 10, 2012 · The Blue Max deserves plaudits for its WWI dogfight sequences, but the human drama (overweeningly ambitious pilot scuppers himself by playing footsy with his superior's wife) never gets off...
