The Red Baron

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Director : Roger Corman
Actor : John Phillip Law, Don Stroud, Barry Primus, Corin Redgrave, Karen Huston
Format : Import, NTSC
Binding : VHS Tape
EAN : 9786304466155
Product Group : Video
Release Date : 1998-09-01
UPC : 027616577337

ASIN : 6304466153

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help needed (2006-02-13)

doe's anyone know where i can buy a video or dvd of the MOVIE THE RED BARON.. EITHER NEW OR USED EMAIL mab_4401@hotmail.com

The Red Baron (2004-12-08)

I just finished watching this movie today. I thought it was great. There were a lot of very realistic, combat flying sequences. Great color and great countryside scenery, period uniforms and music, as well. As a Canadian and a long time avid military aviation history enthusiast, I tend to think it was, in fact, Roy Brown, a fellow Canadian, who gunned down the Red Baron. It is almost impossible for a foot soldier hundreds of yards away, or even feet away for that matter, to shoot at and kill a pilot in an airplane flying close by at even 75-100 miles an hour, or more. No matter, the Canadians got the Red Baron, I think. It seems to me they did an autopsy some years later and tracked the trajectory of the fatal bullet(s). It definitely must have been a particularly jolly good show,that particular aerial dogfight, and the Red Baron got what he deserved, as far as I am concerned. Why the sympathy for him ? It was jolly good sport, potting them. Nothing personal, chaps. Besides, I really think either the the Red Baron himself, or the German Air Force, grossly exaggerated his total kills. Based on the same criteria for total kills, Billy Bishop, another Canadian Ace of Aces, probably would have had well over 100 victories. I highly recommend this movie to all aviation history buffs. I would place this movie on the same level as another WW I aerial combat movie called The Blue Max starring George Peppard.

The Flying Circus of Roger Corman (2004-07-12)

I saw this when it first arrived in the movies in 1971. It was generally ignored back then by audiences tired of the real war in Vietnam but time has marched on and the objections are not as sharp as they once were. It is beautifully filmed and most likely viewed as a "man's picture", with no roles for women other than background props .The musical score by Hugo Friedhofer is excellent and is available on CD if you know where to look. (However, not as great as Goldsmith's "Blue Max" music, which was probably one of the best tunes ever applied to a WW 1 air picture). Now many have spoken of historical problems but it should be said that good situations develop in this work. One of the best is when Don Stroud as Brown walks into the mess and drinks the sour wine that had been left on the table in protest due to his disagreement with toasting the Baron with the chivalry conscious Squadron Commander and Brown's claim that he would drink it when the next pilot is "blown to pieces" by the Baron. The Commander's friend, who had won the Victoria cross was that victim and it makes for effective storyline as Brown convinces the rest of the squadron to abandon the idea of chivalry in war. We also get to see Goering collecting Picasso paintings, a humorous interpretation by the Baron's squadron in painting their planes to obscure their design that led to the famous "Flying Circus" and Henry Fokker introduce the Baron to the Fokker Triplane like a typical car salesman with a sexy woman running her hands along the machine as if we are watching a commercial. Another is when the Allies under Brown attack the German airfield and think they finally have the upper hand but as luck would have it a whole truckload of spare parts arrive for the Baron just after the raid and they put the planes back together in a matter of hours and counterattack the British airfield! We see Von Richthofen as the aristocrat he really was, a young man who transfers hunting in peacetime on his massive estate to "hunting in the air". Also, the fatal flaw of that generation, intent on self destruction due to inability to deal with class change and a willingness to join his former comrades in death. It is a "romanticized" look at the World War 1 Air war. As usual, the allied planes are all SE 5's which makes for boring shots of planes going down continually and the Baron was probably ironically killed by a bullet fired from a trench soldier when he flew too close to the ground in avoiding Brown's pursuit. It should be transferred to DVD and polished so that people can appreciate the scenery that displays the beauty of nature during war to soldier's eyes that was Corman's probable intent.

Good movie on Richthofen-with historical errors (2001-10-06)

This is a good movie on Rittmeister Freiherr von Richthofen, although with a number of historical errors. Nevertheless, watching it in the dubbed German version helped compensate for the errors-though not completely. About the movie: the impulsive young flier taken under the wings of one of originators of aerial combat tactics, Oswald Boelcke is shown correctly. One of the immediate errors that became apparent was what was Goering doing on Richthofen's staffel so early in the war? Some of the otherhistorical figures, Werner Voss[Richthofen's great rival within the Luftstreitkrafte], Boehme[the one who accidently collided with Boelcke's fighter and sent him to his death, Fritz Falkenhayn [Richthofen's supporter who pushed his friend's cause at the Air Ministry and with influential people in the Imperial High Command], could have either been added or developed further. The end was completely off, Richthofen was hit by a stray bullet from groundfire, not by Brown who apparently 'outmanuevers'him in the movie. Despite of all this, as one of the few movies on the premiere ace of the Imperial Air Service and the Great War, I could not give it less then the top number.

Highly inaccurate accounts of the Red Baron (1999-08-17)

Not for those who like accuracy, The Baron didn't collide with Boelke and cause his death, Brown was not flying a Se5, but a Sopwith Camel when he shot down the Baron. Did the d7 come before the Dr1? don't think so. The Baron sustained his head wound from an headon pass, not from Behind. And Brown snuck up from behind to kill the Baron, not from outmanuvuering him like in the movie, I could go on but....if you don't care bout such things, it was a three... S!

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