Tonight at 8pm SunTV is running the 1975 George Roy Hill production The Great Waldo Pepper. Star Robert Redford re-teams with the Butch Cassidy and The Sting director for this underrated barnstormer. I love my aeroplanes but I have long felt -- since I saw it during its original release -- that more is going on than just that element.Also acting out the William Goldman-penned script are Bo Svenson, Bo Brundin (as "Ernst Kessler"... always loved that name), Susan Sarandon, Edward Herrmann, Geoffrey Lewis, and Margot Kidder.
Note: The Great Waldo Pepper must have one of film's most chilling scenes. (For those of you who have seen it will know immediately which one I am talking about. It has to do with human beings.)
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