

The Blue Max
There was no quiet on the Western Front!
A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambitiously to earn the medal offered for 20 kills.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $5M
- Box office
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- Language
- English
- countryside
- germany
- world war i
- air force
- fighter airplane
- code of honor
- biplane
- propeller airplane
- exploding airplane
- medal of honor
- military airplane
- flying ace
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United Kingdom
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalPG21 Jun 1966
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalPG29 Jun 1966
AustraliaAU
- PhysicalPGDVD31 May 2010
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1226 Aug 1966
IrelandIE
- Theatrical1229 Jul 1966
MexicoMX
- Theatrical15 Dec 1966
NetherlandsNL
- Physical12DVD, Blu Ray10 May 2006
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The Blue Max was released on 21 June 1966.
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1- W9/10
Wuchak
11/30/2019
***World War I aerial combat from the German perspective*** During World War I a low-class German soldier, Bruno Stachel (George Peppard), transfers from the muddy trenches to the aristocratic air officer corps. Stachel becomes a bit of a fish out of water with his new higher class comrades-in-arms, but this doesn't bother him as Stachel is interested in only one thing: gunning down twenty enemy planes to get the …
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