The Great Waldo Pepper

Robert Redford heads an impressive cast in this tale of a disillusioned pilot reduced to flying death defying feats in an air circus., Aerial adventure set in the 1920s about a travelling aviator whose exaggerations look set to be discovered when he begins work on a film with a pilot with whom he claims to have done battle. Having told colourful stories of wartime combat with the notorious German flying ace, the two men fortunately find a mutual respect, which culminates in a spectacular dogfight., A former World War I pilot teams with an air-show entrepreneur to barnstorm all over the Midwest. Later, after a series of unexpected (and calamitous) events, he gets a job as a movie stunt pilot., Robert Redford portrays a barnstorming pilot of the 1920s who links up with a small air-circus., Waldo Pepper, a former World War I pilot who exaggerates his accomplishments in battle, teams up with an with air-show entrepreneur to barnstorm all over the Midwest in search of the glory that he never had., Former WWI pilot Waldo Pepper works in an air show. After losing his performance permit, he gets a job as a movie stunt pilot. On the set, he meets a former German ace. The film ends with both men proving to themselves what they’d failed to prove during the war., 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, eventually getting a chance to prove himself in a film depicting the dogfights in the Great War., Aerial adventure set in the 1920s about a travelling aviator who makes a living by thrilling spectators with breathtaking stunts. He tells colourful stories of wartime combat with a notorious German flying ace, but his bluff is called when he meets the man in question on a film set. Luckily, the two men find a mutual respect, which culminates in a spectacular dogfight without ammunition., Aerial adventure set in the 1920s about a travelling aviator who makes a living by thrilling spectators with breathtaking stunts. He tells colourful stories of wartime combat with a notorious German flying ace, but his bluff is called when he meets the man in question on a film set. Luckily, the two men find a mutual respect, which culminates in a spectacular dogfight without ammunition. George Roy Hill.