Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Nov 7th 
Von Richtofen and Brown**
aka: The Red Baron

(GB 1971)     
United Artists/The Corman Company. 97m.

In World War I the aristocrat Mannfred Von Richtfen flies with distinction and kills many of the enemy, but the attrition of the war soon overwhelms honour, as espoused by his Canadian adversary Roy Brown.
Semi-apocryphal war drama with well shot airborne and clearly defined airborne sequences. On the ground level things are more uncertain with some variable moral sympathies, but Corman gets his anti-war point across.

Written by: John Carrington, Joyce Carrington.
Producer: Gene Corman.
Director: Roger Corman.
Starring: John Philip Law, Don Stroud, Corin Redgrave, Barry Primus (as Goering), Hurd Hatfield, Tom Adams, Maureen Cusack, Lorraine Rainer, Karen Huston.
Photography: Michael Reed.
Music: Hugo Friedhofer.                  
Editing: Alan Collins.

Preceded by:
Dream Flight
(US 2018. 11m.; On his flight home a man ruminates about being jilted at the altar - bizarrely, the whole experience truns out to be a dream after his successful wedding.; w: Ben Solenberger, Ari Schneider; d: Ann Hearn Tobolowsky; s: Ben Solenberger. Marguerite Moreau, George Wendt, Ari Schneider, Stephen Tobolowsky; ph: Dennis Zanatta; m: Robby Elfman.)




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