Von Richthofen and Brown

Germany’s greatest pilot, Baron von Richthofen, is killed in midair by a Canadian, marking the end of a war in which officers were gentlemen and glory and honor reigned., This film of the wartime exploits of Baron Von Richthoven, who was also known as the “Red Baron,” was a relatively lavish Corman-brothers production, and is directed by Roger Corman. The film’s airborne dogfight sequences are among its most notable features. Vintage World War I airplanes were used, and accidents during filming resulted in one death and several injuries. The evolution of airborne warfare from being a sporting game between gentlemen to its use as an instrument of total war is integral to the story. Von Richthoven (John Phillip Law), who becomes an air ace and an important German hero, was an early aeronautical rival of Hermann Goering (Barry Primus). So important was he to German morale that he was asked to retire from fighting, so that he could assume a position in the post-war German government. He refused, and was killed by a young Canadian (Don Stroud) in an airborne battle. Spookily enough, even though he died in the air, his plane is reputed to have landed intact., A chronicle of the World War I exploits of Germany’s Manfred von Richthofen, an air ace nicknamed the Red Baron, and Royal Canadian Air Force pilot Arthur Roy Brown and their fateful duel in the skies over France., World War I dogfighting extravaganza with the legendary Baron Manfred von Richthofen blowing scores of Allied airmen out of the sky, filmed in Ireland by legendary B-movie director Roger Corman. While the Germans and British treat the conflict as a gentleman’s sport, Canadian Roy Brown decides that it is time to fight dirty. But is he good enough to stop the deadly Red Baron?