Daring aviators
Movie | |
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German title | Daring aviators |
Original title | The Great Waldo Pepper |
Country of production | United States |
original language | English |
Publishing year | 1975 |
length | 107 minutes |
Age rating | FSK 12 |
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Director | George Roy Hill |
script |
William Goldman , George Roy Hill (story) |
production | George Roy Hill, Robert Crawford Jr. |
music | Henry Mancini |
camera | Robert Surtees |
cut | William H. Reynolds |
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Reckless Fliers (Original title: The Great Waldo Pepper ) is an American feature film from 1975 .
action
Waldo Pepper is a stunt pilot who likes to show off fictional stories about dogfights in World War I that he only experienced as a flight instructor. In 1926 he travels with a Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny" through Nebraska in the midwestern United States and meets the competitor Axel Olsson, who is forced to crash-land in the village pond by Waldo's sabotage. Through the mediation of Mary Beth, they become friends and after a failed stunt that ends almost fatally for Waldo, they work together for Doc Dillhoefer's air circus. Mary is killed on a wingwalk , whereupon Waldo loses his pilot's license.
Pepper goes underground in Hollywood as a stunt pilot under a new name in order to be able to fly further. There he meets during the filming of a movie about the air battles during the First World War to the droves German flying ace Ernst Kessler, with whom he in the final minutes of the film a deadly serious dogfight in their mutually Fokker Dr.I and Sopwith F.1 Camel supplies . Both damage their planes so badly that landing is impossible and greet each other militarily on the last flyby - Waldo Pepper disappears in the clouds.
production
Optically modified Tiger Moth biplanes were used for the real crash landings .
The film was shot in Elgin , Floresville , Kerrville , Lockhart and Seguin , Texas .
reception
“An homage that fluctuates between burlesque and melodrama, which is not without problems in the glorification of combat flying. All in all, however, a delightful, deeply human conversation, technically complex, with fascinating aerial photographs. "
background
The film grossed over $ 20 million in the United States to date, making it a commercial success at around $ 5 million in production.
The figure of the German aerobatic pilot Ernst Kessler is based on Ernst Udet . Udet had made a lasting impression on the American audience through his performances in the early 1930s with his Udet U 12 "Flamingo" .
Web links
- The Great Waldo Pepper in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Great Waldo atrotten tomatoes(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for reckless pilots . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2009 (PDF; test number: 47 217 V).
- ^ Stefan Bartmann: The Great Waldo Pepper . In: Flugzeug Classic . No. 11 , 2009, ISSN 1617-0725 , p. 66-69 .
- ↑ Daring Aviators. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 20, 2018 .
- ↑ Daring Aviators. In: Filmdienst. Catholic Film Commission for Germany, accessed on October 20, 2018 .