The Great Waldo Pepper (1975)

Review: The Great Waldo Pepper (1975)

Director: George Roy Hill

Cast: Robert Redford, Bo Svenson, Bo Brundin, Susan Sarandon, Geoffrey Lewis,

Robert Redford
Robert Redford
Bo Svenson
Bo Svenson
Bo Brundin
Bo Brundin
Susan Sarandon
Susan Sarandon
Geoffrey Lewis
Geoffrey Lewis

Plot: A biplane pilot who had missed flying in WWI takes up barnstorming and later a movie career in his quest for the glory he had missed.

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Back to the ’70s

Back to the ’70s

Revisiting movies from the early 1970s, I recently watched Howard W. Koch’s rather ugly cop feature Badge 373 (1973), with Robert Duvall as a rule-breaking, racist misogynist NYC detective; Willard (1971), Daniel Mann’s adaptation of […]

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