Were getting to the truly avant garde of the high concept, here. Still searching for the ultimate weapon to assist them in winning the war (how many ultimate weapons does one army need, anyway?), in P-51 Dragon Fighter (2014) the Nazis unearth an ancient evil in Africa: dragons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrlfjiZO2dc Thats right, this is a World War II dogfight movie where the Nazis have themselves a Dragon Korps: actual firebreathing dragons with the swastika tattooed upon their wings. The USP of the film is presumably the set pieces involving Allied fighter pilots engaging in dogfights with dragons, while a select task force try to locate and destroy the eggs of future generations of reptilian aircraft. Real life experiments with flamethrowers as airborne weapons has proven that theyre more or less useless in a dogfight: the enemy planes simply moved too fast for the flames to properly take hold, and the fire would dissipate quickly in the slipstream of planes taking evasive action. Still, lets not allow physics to ruin a film about Nazis piloting bloody dragons, yes? This glorious yet shoddy piece of B-movie wonder was written and directed by Mark Atkins, whose other films include no less than three other movies about dragons, and SAND SHARKS. Thats sharks that move through sand like it was water. We've had Ghost Shark, Avalanche Shark, Sharknados out the wazoo now this. But, talking about sharks
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