Rating: NR Genre: Drama Release Date: 05/20/2003 SubTitles: English/Espanol Dubbed: English/French/Espanol Sound: DD1/DS Run Time: 150 Minutes Flags: Violence, Brief Nudity, Adult Situations, Questionable for Children Distributor/Studio: 20th Century Fox
Based on a novel by Jack D. Hunter, The Blue Max is a World War I aviation drama, told from the German point of view. Low-born infantryman George Peppard becomes a pilot, almost deliberately stepping on the sensibilities of his aristocratic comrades in the process. A national hero, Peppard wins the Blue Max, the highest award that can be bestowed upon an aviator. His fame is exploited by general James Mason, who tolerates Peppard's affair with Mason's wife Ursula Andress. The canny Mason knows that, eventually, Peppard will be expendable, and a "heroic" death can be arranged.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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from Fort Lauderdale, Florida An Historic Aviation War Drama
Based on the novel by Jack Hunter set during the last year of World War I. George Peppard stars as a young German Leutnant, who sets out to overcome the stigma of battling the enemy and the prejudices of his higher-born fellow pilots in order to win his country's most coveted air medal, The Blue Max before the war ends. Also starring James Mason, Ursula Andress, Jeremy Kemp, Karl Michael Vogler, Anton Diffring, Loni von Friedl, Harry Towb, Peter Woodthorp, Derek Newark, Carl Schell, Friedrich Ledebur, and Doreen Nesbitt.