The Great Waldo Pepper PG
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 48 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 3, 2010
- Originally Released: 1975
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Robert Redford | |
Performer: | Bo Brundin, Susan Sarandon, Bo Svenson, Margot Kidder & Geoffrey Lewis | |
Directed by | George Roy Hill | |
Edited by | William Reynolds & Peter Berkos | |
Screenwriting by | William Goldman | |
Composition by | Henry Mancini | |
Art Direction by | Henry Bumstead | |
Produced by | George Roy Hill | |
Director of Photography: | Robert Surtees |
Entertainment Reviews:
The Great Waldo Pepper is vastly entertaining and a good deal more besides.
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Gannett News Service
It has all the elements of a fantastic, touching movie, except one - a script that engages the audience's interest.
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Los Angeles Free Press
...A most appealing movie...
New York Times
Rating: 3/4 --
It doesn't have any big notions about the passing of that era, or of the barnstormers, who are seen as overgrown kids with wonderful toys that fly. But it has a good feeling for the period, and director George Roy Hill gives us poignancy and adventure.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 4/5 --
Great aerial stunts, good period atmosphere, and compelling story with Redford in good form.
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Product Description:
Following the enormous success of THE STING, George Roy Hill finally had the freedom to make this film about the romance of aviation, which had been a cherished project of his for years. It stars Robert Redford as Waldo Pepper, a former WWI pilot who, in 1926, is barnstorming across the country in a Curtiss JN-4 biplane, doing stunts for a living. He exaggerates his wartime heroics, as much to fulfill his own fantasies as to drum up business, claiming to have engaged in a dogfight with ace German fighter pilot Ernst Kessler (Bo Brundin). His closest friend, Ezra Stiles, is working on the design of a monoplane that can perform the perilous outside loop, which Pepper intends to be the first to execute. With public interest in stunt flying on the downslide, the pilot is forced to partner with good-natured former competitor Axel Olsson (Bo Svenson). But things still remain tough for the pilots, leading them to join a flying circus. When tragedy strikes, Pepper must answer to aviation authorities. The film, well executed on every level, features extraordinary stunt flying, mixing slapstick with a darker drama about the crippling effect of adolescent fantasy.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 12,247
- UPC: 025192066481
- Shipping Weight: 0.16/lbs (approx)
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