Von Richthofen and Brown also known as The Red Baron, is a film directed by Roger Corman, and starring John Phillip Law and Don Stroud as the titular characters. Although the names of real people are used, the story by Joyce Hooper Corrington and John William Corrington is essentially fictionalised. Manfred von Richthofen is a German cavalry officer newly assigned to an air squadron under the command of Oswald Boelcke who quickly becomes an ace. His career is presented on screen intercut with scenes of another pilot across the lines, a Canadian pilot named Roy Brown who arrives at a British... squadron, where the top scoring pilot is a Victoria Cross holder named Lanoe Hawker. The two pilots are very different; Brown ruffles the feathers of his squadron mates by refusing to drink a toast to von Richthofen, while von Richthofen awards himself silver trophies in honour of his kills and clashes with fellow pilot, Hermann Göring, when Boelcke is killed after a mid air collision and Richthofen assumes command of the squadron. While Brown becomes moody and depressed by his war service, Richthofen becomes outwardly energized by the war.
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| Release date: | 1971 |
| Directed by: | Roger Corman |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 97 Minutes |
| Editor: | Alan Collins |
| Music by: | Hugo Friedhofer |
| Cinematography: | Michael Reed |
| Genre: | Action, Biography |