

“There was no quiet on the Western Front!”
A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambitiously to earn the medal offered for 20 kills.
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$5,000,000

Spend time on both sides of World War I, partly with German flying ace Baron Manfred Von Richthofen (John Phillip Law), aka "The Red Baron," and his colorful "flying circus" of Fokker fighter planes, during the time from his arrival at the war front to his death in combat. On the other side is Roy Brown of the Royal Air Force, sometimes credited with shooting Richthofen down.


Colonel Otto Heidemann
A biplane pilot and WWI veteran takes up barnstorming and later a movie career in his quest for the glory days he misses.