The Blue Max (1966)

Directors

John Guillermin

Cast

George Peppard, James Mason, Ursula Andress, Jeremy Kemp, Karl Michael Vogler, Anton Diffring

The story

thumb|240px|A Caudron C.270 Luciole and a Pfalz D.III from Lynn Garrison's collection in flight over Weston Aerodrome, Ireland German Corporal Bruno Stachel leaves the fighting in the trenches of World War I to become a fighter pilot in the German Army Air Service. Of modest origins (his father ran a small hotel), Leutnant Stachel needs to prove himself and in spring 1918, he sets his sights on winning Germany's highest medal for valour, the "Blue Max", for which he must shoot down 20 aircraft. Leutnant Willi von Klugermann resents having a commoner as his rival.

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