Von Richthofen and Brown

von Richthofen and Brown profiled two very real heroes of the First World War: Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the infamous ''Red Baron'', and Roy Brown, a Canadian air ace. The two men could not be more different not only in nationality but also in philosophical outlook. von Richthofen maintains a traditional chivalric, and aristocratic code of honor whereas Brown upsets most of his stiff-upper-lipped pilot peers by rejecting all notions of chivalry and honor.

Roger Corman

Comment:
I still needed some crash shots. I went out to a field and found some kids who were building and flying some radio-controlled gas-powered model airplanes, the kind with long wingspans that I used to build as a kid. I asked them if they were into building World War One models for me and I offered each one of them a couple of hundred bucks.
They loved it. They placed lite balsa wood dummies in the cockpits and I could get them in close-ups with the zoom-lens. We had a terrific time. I was shooting it all. At the end of the day every kid slammed his plane into the ground for the crash shots.

Roger Corman