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Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304466155
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6304466153
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: September 01, 1998
Running Time: 97 minutes
Sales Rank: 31287
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 1971
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
The incredibly prolific exploitation film producer and director, Roger Corman, tries his hand at a war film with Von Richthofen and Brown, about WWI air battles between German icon Baron Manfred Von Richtofen (John Phillip Law), and his alleged captor, Canadian Lt. Roy Brown (Don Stroud). With a slowly unfolding plot that may be tedious to anyone but war buffs trolling for historical accuracy, the film is mostly about its flight sequences, as it should be. Von Richthofen and Brown shows The Red Baron's rise to glory and his noble downfall, while building sympathy for the opposing forces who plan revenge on his unbeatable German team. Interpretive scenes during which he snidely paints his squadron's planes, including his own conspicuous red, and later depicting his controversial death, during which he is shot mid-air but somehow lands his plane, are the most arresting to those not aircraft-obsessed. Tension built between Von Richthofen and Brown is half-baked, making further argument for the film's battle-scene priority. War aficionados will appreciate this film, while Corman fans will yearn for more sex, gore, melodrama, and classic Corman action. --Trinie Dalton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - WWI Aviation Aces
Valiant effort at recreating the feel of WWI aviation but 'over acting' is a detriment. It is still an enjoyable motion picture none the less.
Rating:  - Uninspired
About the only thing right in this movie is that there were Se5s and Dr1s in WW1. The script is uninspired and the characters uninfluenced by history OR truth. In getting to know Brown you don't learn anything about the real man. The Baron himself is played stiffly and therefore nothing of the Baron's personality comes forth. The flying scenes are poorly done, but at least they are real planes and not computer fantasies. Nothing is revealed concerning the mysterious death of the Baron. Instead, the ... Read More
Rating:  - Umm...yeah...
Well, the French countryside they fly over is quite beautiful. That said, there are many annoying aspects to this film. It really comes off as a spaghetti Western, with the odd, foreign look of the cast (I would have thought this was filmed in Hungary or Romania, quite frankly), lips that don't always match the words, and props that just don't quite cut it ("flashlight" and "cigarette lighter" machine guns, ultra-red fake blood, etc). Most annoying of all (for me, anyway) is that the airplanes themselves ... Read More
Rating: - Enjoyable WWI story
I enjoyed this movie. It told the story of WWI, its futility, the players involved and the tragedy. By no means perfect but very entertaining and does make you think.
Rating: - Vib /euxgridwb & Brown
One of the best WWI movies featuring two of the most famous pilots of that day. A wonderful legacy of the days when pilots were "Knights of the Air".
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