name | The Great Waldo Pepper |
---|---|
director | George Roy Hill |
producer | George Roy Hill |
writer | George Roy HillWilliam Goldman |
starring | Robert RedfordBo SvensonMargot KidderBo BrundinSusan Sarandon |
music | Henry Mancini |
cinematography | Robert Surtees |
editing | William H. Reynolds |
distributor | Universal Pictures |
released | March 13, 1975 |
runtime | 107 minutes |
country | |
language | English |
budget | $5 million |
gross | $20,642,922 }} |
The Great Waldo Pepper is a 1975 drama film directed, produced, and co-written by George Roy Hill. It stars Robert Redford as a discontented airplane pilot in the years 1926-1931. Margot Kidder, Bo Svenson, Edward Hermann and Susan Sarandon round out the cast.
Enemies at first, Waldo and Axel become partners and try out various stunts. One goes wrong and Waldo is nearly killed after slamming into a barn. Waldo goes home to Kansas to recuperate with an earlier lover Maude (Margot Kidder) and her family. Maude's brother Ezra (Edward Hermann) is an old friend of Waldo's and promises to build Waldo a high performance monoplane as soon as Waldo is well enough to fly it.
In the meantime Waldo recuperates and joins back up with Axel and the two eventually wind up flying for a traveling air show owned by Dillhoefer (Philip Bruns). In an effort to attract bigger crowds, Dillhoefer introduces several young ladies into the show, including Mary Beth (Susan Sarandon) and Patsy (Kelly Jean Peters). As the show moves from town to town, and the crew practices new stunts, they experience problems, errors, and crashes. As a result of the death of Mary Beth during a wing walking stunt, Waldo is grounded by an inspector of the newly formed Air Commerce division of the Federal government, a man from Waldo's past during the war named Newt (Geoffrey Lewis). Waldo ultimately loses his pilot's license and the Dillhoefer show is suspended after Ezra is killed while substitute-flying for him.
But this doesn't stop him from flying for long. Using an alias, Waldo Pepper gets a job as a stunt pilot in a Hollywood film depicting the air battles of the Great War. Famous German air ace Ernst Kessler (Bo Brundin) has also been hired by the producers, as a consultant and to fly a Fokker Dr. I replica. The disillusioned, bitter and heavy drinking depiction of Kessler is based on the real German ace and stunt flier Ernst Udet. During filming of a famous wartime duel, though their fighters are unarmed, Waldo and Kessler begin dogfighting in deadly earnest, using their airplanes as weapons, each repeatedly colliding with the other, Waldo in a Sopwith Camel, Kessler in a Fokker. Eventually, they both realize that their planes are too damaged to land. Instead of fighting, each salutes the other, and flies his own way. As the sound fades, the last shot of the film is of a page in an album. One of the pictures is of Waldo. Beneath the picture is a caption: "Waldo Pepper. 1895-1931".
This movie was filmed in Elgin, Texas. Aerial sequences were filmed at Zuehl Airfield near San Antonio, Texas. Several aerial scenes were also filmed over the Sebring, FL Airport (also known for the 12 hour LeMans-style endurance race)
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