Steve Nelson wrote:
One of my favorites. Great flying sequences and a fantastic Jerry Goldsmith music score. The music is a very important part of the film "experience" to me. A good score can make a bad movie tolerable, and a bad score can turn an otherwise good film into a clunker. Both "Tora! Tora! Tora!" and "Battle of Britain" have fantastic full symphonic scores.
Of course the story is pure soap opera, but no worse than many other similar flicks..I don't know a whole lot about WWI, so I can't comment on the historical/cultural cultural accuracy, but it looks believable to my untrained eye. I still pop it in for some light entertainment occasionally. One thing that always impressed me was the subdued markings on the aircraft..according to pretty much every other WWI aviation flick the entire German Air Force was made up of bright red Fokker Triplanes.
What was the "prototype monoplane" used in the final sequence? I seem to remember it was a French design of some sort.
Of course Ursula Andress brings back some fond mammar...er, memories.
Steve the Freudian.
You are sooo right about the film score. Music can make or break a film. Over 50% of my music collection is film scores and soundtracks. Morane Sualnier MS 230 was the Monoplane Fighter.
They did build some great replica SE-5's Fokker DVII's, Phalz DIII and Tripes for the film!
And they were used in several other films. Most are still with us today!
Jerry