Von Richthofen and Brown theatrical poster 1971 frame added 2016
by David Lee Guss
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Von Richthofen and Brown theatrical poster 1971 frame added 2016
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David Lee Guss
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"Von Richthofen and Brown, also known as The Red Baron, is a 1971 war film directed by Roger Corman, and starring John Phillip Law and Don Stroud as the title characters. Although names of real people are used, the story by Joyce Hooper Corrington and John William Corrington makes no claim to be historically accurate, and in fact is largely fictional.
Roger Corman had been interested in making a film about Manfred von Richthofen for a number of years. Corman felt that the Baron was the last true knight, an aristocratic warrior with a code of honor. Corman wanted to show how the Baron's way of thinking was archaic compared to the wholesale slaughter of World War I.
Corman also wanted to contrast the Baron with the man who had been credited with shooting him down, Canadian RAF pilot Roy Brown. (Most historians now believe that the Red Baron was shot down by ground fire.) In 1965 it was announced he had commissioned a script called The Red Baron from Robert Towne. Although the story of the two foes who meet in a fateful last flight, was essentially a historical subject, Corman's intention was to treat the subject as an allegory of the modern war machine in conflict with antiquated old world notions of chivalry."
When Von Richthofen was killed Herman Goering took over command of his 'Flying Circus' squadron.
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