

The Great Waldo Pepper
The second greatest flyer in the world.
A biplane pilot and WWI veteran takes up barnstorming and later a movie career in his quest for the glory days he misses.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $5M
- Box office
- $20.6M
- Language
- English
- world war i
- aerial combat
- red baron
- biplane
- flying ace
- barnstorming
- fighter ace
- stunt pilot
- the red baron
- airplane pilot
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalPG13 Mar 1975
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalPG4 Apr 1975
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1213 Mar 1975
IrelandIE
- TheatricalPG6 Jun 1975
JapanJP
- Theatrical13 Mar 1976
NetherlandsNL
- Theatrical622 Oct 1975
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The Great Waldo Pepper was released on 13 March 1975.
Audience reviews
2- P6/10
Patrick E. Abe
9/21/2016
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 is shown via the ups and downs of "Doc Dilhoefer's Flying Circus," where a novice wing walker freezes in place. The lon…
- W7/10
Wuchak
9/28/2024
**_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-again, off-again girlfriend. Geoffrey Lewis is also on hand as an inspector of the newly formed Air Commerce. "The Great…
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