The Great Waldo Pepper

George Roy Hill and Robert Redford, ditch their schemes on Earth and take to the skies, where the actor attempts to attain stardom as a stunt man in the roaring 20s, before the Great Depression. Although there is little substance, Redford's charm makes the picture…

Rafael "Mister Movie" Jovine

A decade before Tom Cruise was sweating it out in the cockpit for Top Gun, we had Robert Redford taking to the skies in The Great Waldo Pepper. Redford plays Waldo, a character inspired by the real-life barnstormers of the 1920s, and honestly, I find the whole barnstorming…

legolas

definitely was not expecting this to be a love story between robert redford and several other men, but you know what? good for him.

eely 👻

"The Great Waldo Pepper" is a 1975 drama directed by George Roy Hill with comedic and adventure topes connected throughout. Conventionally playing out like a biographical film, but centered around a fictional character, the film is really a conduit for Hill's passion of…

Blake Bergman "Various Spaghetti"

Only George Roy Hill could have the balls to make a movie about a stargazing post-WWI era pilot named Waldo Pepper. If this were to be released in theaters today, people would combust out of confusion. In the 70s, you could probably make a movie about a 1920s croquet player…

Rob Patrick

Usually if you've got a movie that can effectively use nostalgia vibes, I'm on board. And The Great Waldo Pepper uses those vibes really well. Sure, there's others out there that can probably top it (like American Graffiti for instance), but that doesn't mean it isn't…

madmonsterparty

Robert Redford had everything - intense charm, sturdy talent, clear intelligence, grounded ethics and absurdly, ridiculously good looks. He embodies Hollywood in the 70s for me like few others, lending his stardom and box-office clout to projects that challenge and provoke…

Fint

ROBERT REDFORD: [performs incredibly dangerous aerial stunts] BOBBY REDFROP'S GIRLFRIEND: [panics and falls from plane] ROBERTO RUFFLES: 😐 BOB REDRUM'S FRIEND: [crashes and burns to death] ROBBY ROUGEFOUGE: 😐 BOBERT FOBERT: [flies plane directly at crowd,…

Jordan Beaumont Anderson

Waldo Pepper is a man doomed to always watch the most important events of his life fade out of existence just before he gets there - his world is a sky-full of potentiality unfulfilled. After witnessing him taking Nebraska farm folk for a ride in his biplane for 25 cents a…

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