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Summary: The film that anticipated Top Gun!
Review: After having triumphed with The Sting Georges Roy Hill repeated with the stellar and consecrated actor Robert Redford to the boy-men aerial barnstorming pilots of the 1920's. Redford is a daredevil who regrets having missed the chance to trade shoot-outs with the great aces of WW1 .
He feels his passion is not in line with the collective (A hidden homage to The Rules of Game) . look for a young and beauty actress in her beginnings : Susan Sarandon .
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Summary: Another Solid Redford Movie
Review: First, let me say I watched this movie as a child and had good memories of the movie; especially the flying scenes. I recently purchased the DVD to add it to my Robert Redford collection. If you liked "This Property Is Condemned", then you should feel a familiarity to this one. Both have a strong basis of difficult financial times and how they affect Redford in particular. You really feel the desperation of the characters to make a buck no matter what the cost. I never much cared for Susan Surandon, but in this film her character and her accent are very convincing. I have always enjoyed 'love-hate' relationships in film and the characters of Redford and Joe Don Baker have just that. They are competitors and so in some since enemies. However, you see the real admiration and respect each has for the other and their flying skills. Redford often portrays his characters in a very convicted way and characters that are very driven an focused on what they do, for example: "Jeremiah Johnson" or "The Natural". He does the same in this film. Just about the time you ask your self, "What else could go wrong for these guys and how is this movie going to resolve itself?", the film presents a somewhat beautiful ending.
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Summary: A great classic Redford-film filled with strong lines...
Review: Great Waldo Pepper is a high-flying and neck-braking movie about 2 stunt pilots. But it is also a lovestory. I mean: Who cannot fall in love with Robert Redford with crutches and leg-cast! GREAT MOVIE!!!
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Summary: I Know What It's Like
Review: Growing up this was significant to me, because I had already seen Jeremiah Johnson and other countless Redford films. Also recently, I moved to Elgin, Texas, just 2 miles from where Redford's airplane was filmed flying through the center of a historical small town! The pictures and newspaper articles are in the town's railroad depot museum. The town hasn't changed much since then and is very historical to this day.
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Summary: I Know What It's Like
Review: Growing up this was significant to me, because I had already seen Jeremiah Johnson and other countless Redford films. Also recently, I moved to Elgin, Texas, just 2 miles from where Redford's airplane was filmed flying through the center of a historical small town! The pictures and newspaper articles are in the town's railroad depot museum. The town hasn't changed much since then and is very historical to this day.
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Summary: A Classic Reford Film!
Review: I Don't often give movies a five star rating but this one really deserved it. Robert Redford did an excellent job as a World War I flying ace being forced to adapt to a civilian life style after the war and at the same time watch the world, as he knew it, slip away.This happens to many of us as we grow older and the world around begins to change. Like Reford in The Great Waldo Pepper you try and grasp onto what your most familiar with. The world and it's changes leave you behind. What do you do? In this well made, well filmed and well acted movie you will find out about the life and dreams of one man placed where there is no return. The Great Waldo Pepper Has some of the most beautiful flying scenes that you will see anywhere. It turns back the pages of time and gives you a little glimpse of what flying was all about in its infancy. My suggestion: Buy it.
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Summary: Adventure, nostalgia...everything!
Review: I have seen The Great Waldo Pepper more times than I can remember and I think it is still the best film to show what a flyer's life was like back in the 20's. Great story, fantastic flying(no computer-generated images)and excellent acting make it one of my absolute favorites!
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Summary: Wish it was in widescreen.
Review: I made my dad take me to see this as a 7th grader back in 1975, and I snapped it up on impulse when I ran across it in a store. The aviation sequences are superb. Redford must be a pilot himself as some sequences clearly show him in a plane that is actually flying. The character of Ernst Kessler is loosely based on the real life Ernst Udet (whose picture appears in the opening sequence), a German WWI ace who had the words "Not you again!" painted on the tail of his airplane. A real treat for any early aviation enthusiast as the various reproduction aircraft look amazingly accurate. One thing I liked about the flying sequences was the lack of any soundtrack, just the sound of the vintage engines. Also featured is a young Susan Sarandon. DVD doesn't have any extra features to speak of (not even a trailer) but is priced right. Too bad they didn't do it in widescreen. A few things to look out for: When Olssons wheels fall off his plane at the beginning of the movie, look for tiny castors mounted on the bottom of the planes axle, that's how the stunt pilot was later able to land. The crash into the pond was filmed later. During the wingwalking scene where Pepper attempts to rescue Olssons girlfriend, the two planes nearly collide. Watch the cameraman's reaction to the near-collision.
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Summary: watch it?
Review: The issue under discussion is HEROISM, not adjustment to civilian life. Waldo Pepper is a hero who never had a chance to prove himself. He was NOT a WWI flying ace. He never went into combat. His conflict is not finding it hard to adjust to civilian life. His conflict is: As a pilot in WWI, he was kept behind in the US to train young pilots (hence the conflict between himself and Kessler - the 4 young pilots Kessler shot down were Pepper protiges). If he had been there, he might have saved their lives by killing Kessler earlier. This is the true meaning of the fight scene at the end. Waldo proves that he could have saved the lives of the 4 pilots if he had been in France.
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Summary: My favorite movie of all time
Review: This is a lovestory about airplanes and flying, about a life in the sky. It is powerful, emotional, adventurous and above-all chivalrous. I watched it as a lad and then went on to make my life as a pilot in the world beyond the silver screen. This DVD takes me back to my beginnings.
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