The Blue Max - 1966

Condition: Excellent 

Folded as Issued 

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Size: 18 x 24 inches (45 x 60 cm)

An original French Petite movie poster for the 1966 release of “The Blue Max” with art by Boris Grinsson. 

A British 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 screenplay was written by David Pursall, Jack Seddon and Gerald Hanley, based on the novel of the same name by Jack D. Hunter.

In contrast to films that romanticise the flying aces of the Great War, The Blue Max depicts the protagonist as a man who appears to have no regard for anyone but himself. Set against the realities of modern warfare, the film also explores the decline of chivalry and the advent of total war.

German Corporal Bruno Stachel leaves the fighting in the trenches to become a fighter pilot in the German Army Air Service. In spring 1918, he sets his sights on winning Germany's highest medal for valour, the "Blue Max", for which he must shoot down 20 aircraft.

"There was no quiet on the Western Front for the heroes and cowards who flew to their rendezvous with Hell!" 

Tags 1960s War Drama Adventure Petite French German Action