Templars wrote:
Thought we should do this. Last night, I was able to finish Hell's Angels. Despite some really absurd scenes, this movie has the best WWI flight action every filmed or made. If there is another one with more action, I'd like to know the title.
The flight scenes don't come across as dated at all. Frankly, I was very impressed with the special effects given the time this movie was made.
To see that many vintage aircraft in the air was just great. The camera work was excellent.
This is a hard to find movie but you owe it to yourself to try to find a copy.
On the George Peppard debate, I thought he was fine as Bruno Stachel. I didn't find it as "Hollywood" as some have. Again, and I know I've said this before, the score to this film is brilliant.
From the ascending notes imparting the image of flight in the theme song, to the dire ballad facing the Germans as they take to the air late in the war, it could not have been done any better.
Jerry Goldsmith was to conduct the Nashville symphony (and I had tickets) but became ill just before the performance. Not long after, he died - cancer I believe.
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