The Great Waldo Pepper DVD 1975 A nagy Waldo Pepper / Directed by George Roy Hill / Starring: Robert Redford, Bo Svenson, Margot Kidder, Bo Brundin

UPC 5998133196538

MADE IN EU

REGION 2 PAL DVD

Audio: English 2.0, Hungarian 2.0

Subtitle: Hungarian

Runtime: 105 minutes

English Summary:

The Great Waldo Pepper is a 1975 American drama film directed, produced, and co-written by George Roy Hill. Set during 1926–1931, the film stars Robert Redford as a disaffected World War I veteran pilot who missed the opportunity to fly in combat, and examines his sense of postwar dislocation in 1920s America. The cast includes Margot Kidder, Bo Svenson, Edward Herrmann and Susan Sarandon. The Great Waldo Pepper depicts barnstorming during the 1920s and the accidents that led to aviation regulations by the Air Commerce Act.

World War I veteran Waldo Pepper (Robert Redford) feels he has missed out on the glory of aerial combat after being made a flight instructor. After the war, Waldo had taken up barnstorming to make a living. He soon tangles with rival barnstormer (and fellow war veteran) Axel Olsson (Bo Svenson).

Antagonistic at first, Waldo and Axel become partners and try out various stunts. One of these stunts, a car-to-aircraft transfer, goes wrong and Waldo is nearly killed after Axel is unable to climb high enough to clear a barn, slamming Waldo into it. Waldo then goes home to Kansas to be with on-again, off-again girlfriend Maude (Kidder) and her family. Maude, however, is not happy to see Waldo at first; because every time he returns from a barnstorming tour of the country, he is injured in some way. Eventually, however, they make up and become lovers once again. Meanwhile, Maude's brother Ezra (Ed Herrmann), a long-time friend of Waldo's since boyhood, promises to build Waldo a high-performance monoplane as soon as he is well enough to fly it. Waldo's goal is to become the first pilot in history to successfully perform an outside loop, and Ezra feels Waldo can do it with the monoplane.

Hungarian Summary:

Az I. világháborút követő években a háborúban megedzett merész pilótáknak sokkal prózaibb mesterség után kellett nézniük: a "Repülő cirkusz" mutatványosaiként vakmerően kalandos vállalkozásokban kerestek életüknek új értelmet. Így tesz Waldo Pepper is, aki a földhözragadt mindennapok unalmas világa helyett minden tiltás ellenére a végtelen kék eget választja, magasban szállva a felhők fölött.

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