The Blue Max (1 Viewer)

[lancer]

Just a salute to The Blue Max which is 50 years old this year (released June 21, 1966) and which I consider to be one of the 3 best WW1 aviation films ever ( the other 2 being the 1938 version of The Dawn Patrol and Hell's Angels from 1930). The Blue Max holds special meaning to me as it was a very special event for me to see it. I was 13 years old and got to ride the DC public bus system downtown to meet my father at his work place from which he took me to see this movie in one of DC's grand old theaters (long gone now), on a huge screen. It was a grand day. At any rate, Happy Anniversary to Bruno Stachel and the rest of the German airman in The Blue Max. -- Al

 

[Warrior]

Just a salute to The Blue Max which is 50 years old this year (released June 21, 1966) and which I consider to be one of the 3 best WW1 aviation films ever ( the other 2 being the 1938 version of The Dawn Patrol and Hell's Angels from 1930). The Blue Max holds special meaning to me as it was a very special event for me to see it. I was 13 years old and got to ride the DC public bus system downtown to meet my father at his work place from which he took me to see this movie in one of DC's grand old theaters (long gone now), on a huge screen. It was a grand day. At any rate, Happy Anniversary to Bruno Stachel and the rest of the German airman in The Blue Max. -- Al

"CON-FIRMED".......................still a great line...............

 

[Go for Broke]

I saw the movie in a theater too. I was visiting my sister in Honolulu, who took me. The theater was huge, unlike the puny theaters they have now.

 

[mikemiller1955]

was a great aviation film for it's time...leaps and bounds ahead of the others...

 

[lancer]

was a great aviation film for it's time...leaps and bounds ahead of the others...

Certainly hasn't been equaled by anything done since 1966. 'Flyboys' maybe comes closest as far as flying sequences but those are mostly all CGI and it's got a lot of problems because of that stupid love story they inserted into the movie. -- Al

 

[BLReed]

'Flyboys' maybe comes closest as far as flying sequences ...........it's got a lot of problems because of that stupid love story they inserted into the movie. -- Al

I guess Ursula was just showing George "landing technics.":smile2:

 

[Louis Badolato]

I saw the movie in a theater too. I was visiting my sister in Honolulu, who took me. The theater was huge, unlike the puny theaters they have now.

I miss when Movie Theaters played only one movie at a time, and you could sit in the balcony and drop popcorn on the adults below . . . :wink2:^&grin