The Great Waldo Pepper

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The Great Waldo Pepper ★★★ 1975 (PG)

Low key and (for Hill) less commercial film about a WWI pilot-turned-barnstormer who gets hired as a stuntman for the movies. Features spectacular vintage aircraft flying sequences. 107m/C VHS, DVD . Robert Redford, Susan Sarandon, Margot Kidder, Bo Svenson, Scott Newman, Geoffrey Lewis, Edward Herrmann; D: George Roy Hill; W: William Goldman; C: Robert L. Surtees; M: Henry Mancini.

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