The Great Waldo Pepper

6.5
Overview
A biplane pilot and WWI veteran takes up barnstorming and later a movie career in his quest for the glory days he misses.
Reviews (2)
Patrick E. Abe (Rated: 6)
Former World War I pilot Waldo Pepper barnstorms across rural America, giving 5 minute rides to skeptical townsfolk. Clearly the people behind this project love aviation and capture the feel of the post-World-War-I era when "the sky's the limit" was literally true.
The downside of early aviation...
Wuchak (Rated: 7)
The daredevil barnstormers of the 1920s with Robert Redford and Bo Svenson
Two former pilots of WW1 team-up to entertain people in middle America with increasingly risky aerial maneuvers. Susan Sarandon plays a woman who joins the team while Margot Kidder appears as the protagonist’s on-aga...
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