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      The Great Waldo Pepper

      1975, Adventure/Drama, 1h 47m

      12 Reviews 1,000+ Ratings

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      Movie Info

      Aerial tale set in the 1920s about a traveling aviator whose exaggerations look to be discovered when he begins work on a film with a pilot with whom he claims to have done battle. Having told colorful stories of wartime combat with the notorious German flying ace, the two men fortunately find a mutual respect, which culminates in a spectacular dogfight.

      • Rating: PG

      • Genre: Adventure, Drama

      • Original Language: English

      • Director: George Roy Hill

      • Producer: George Roy Hill

      • Release Date (Theaters):  original

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      • Distributor: Universal Pictures

      • Production Co: Universal Pictures

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      • Mar 15, 2019

        It's hard to believe it now, but there was a time that if you had an airplane you could fly it anywhere, anytime, and you could use the gas from any gas station. This story takes place at the end of that era. Redford plays a good pilot who is untested, in his own eyes and in the eyes of his fellows and watches anxiously as the chance for that testing slips away. Already the feds are moving in with their laws and regulations, fencing off the sky itself. George Roy Hill, the director and a pilot himself (along with William Goldman, writer, and Henry Mancini doing the music) capture the breezy spirit of that freedom, the freedom of the air, and those times with some melancholy and longing.

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      • Sep 05, 2010

        The airplane stunts in this movie are exciting, and the drama in the movie is pretty good, and it's kind of sad too. I hated the end, though. This movie was good, but it could have been better.

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      • Jan 05, 2008

        i thought this was a pretty good movie wouldnt say it was really my favourite type of movie and the whole plot and storyline of it could have been alot better but the peformances in the film were good some could have been better though

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