Review – Von Richthofen and Brown

This is one of the weirdest movies Roger Corman ever directed. Not that it's objectively strange. Indeed, anything but. It's a straightforward telling of the rise and demise of the Red Baron. That's what makes it such a peculiar entry in Corman's catalog. The man is a legend in the movie business for producing schlocky pictures on budgets so low they were virtually guaranteed to turn a profit. By that standard, a movie with this many expensive, well done aerial combat scenes would have been an unusual risk to say the least. Still, it pays off. The parts on the ground aren't all at thrilling, but the planes more than make up for it. They even manage to make a point or two about the increasing barbarism of war. Mildly amusing