The Blue Max is a 1966 war film directed by John Guillermin and starring George Peppard, James Mason, Ursula Andress, Karl Michael Vogler, and Jeremy Kemp. The film was made in DeLuxe Color and was one of the last movies filmed in CinemaScope. The plot is about a German fighter pilot on the Western Front during World War I. The screenplay was written by David Pursall, Jack Seddon, and Gerald Hanley, based on the novel of the same name by Jack D. Hunter as adapted by Ben Barzman and Basilio Franchina.
Original poster by Frank McCarthy
A Caudron C.270 Luciole and a Pfalz D.III from Lynn Garrison’s collection in flight over Weston Aerodrome, Ireland
Pour le Mérite, informally known as the "Blue Max", the highest military honour that the Kingdom of Prussia could bestow during World War I.
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John Guillermin was a French-British film director, writer and producer who was most active in big-budget, action-adventure films throughout his lengthy career.
John Guillermin in 1970