The Great Waldo Pepper
The second greatest flyer in the world.
Overview
A biplane pilot and WWI veteran takes up barnstorming and later a movie career in his quest for the glory days he misses.
- Budget
- $5,000,000
- Revenue
- $20,642,922
- Production
- Universal Pictures
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Cast
Robert Redford
Waldo Pepper
Bo Svenson
Axel Olsson
Bo Brundin
Ernst Kessler
Susan Sarandon
Mary Beth
Geoffrey Lewis
Newt
Edward Herrmann
Ezra Stiles
Philip Bruns
Dilhoefer
Roderick Cook
Werfel
Kelly Jean Peters
Patsy
Margot Kidder
Maude
Scott Newman
Duke
James N. Harrell
Farmer
John Reilly
Western Star
Jack Manning
Director, Spanish Set
Lawrence P. Casey
German Star
Marilyn Burns
Spectator (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- George Roy Hill
- Writers
- George Roy Hill,William Goldman
- Producers
- George Roy Hill
- Cinematography
- Robert Surtees
- Composer
- Henry Mancini
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Patrick E. Abe
September 21, 2016
Former World War I pilot Waldo Pepper barnstorms across rural America, giving 5 minute rides to skeptical townsfolk. Clearly the people behind this project love aviation and capture the feel of the post-World-War-I era when "the sky's the limit" was literally true. The downside of early aviation is shown via the ups and downs of "Doc Dilhoefer's Flying Circus," where a novice wing walker freezes in place. The long arm of the FAA catches up to Waldo because "it's time that aviation got civili…
Wuchak
September 28, 2024
**_The daredevil barnstormers of the 1920s with Robert Redford and Bo Svenson_** Two former pilots of WW1 team-up to entertain people in middle America with increasingly risky aerial maneuvers. Susan Sarandon plays a woman who joins the team while Margot Kidder appears as the protagonist’s on-again, off-again girlfriend. Geoffrey Lewis is also on hand as an inspector of the newly formed Air Commerce. "The Great Waldo Pepper" (1975) is a tribute to the men & women who risked their lives to …