Where was The Great Waldo Pepper filmed?
1977 film, directed by George Roy Hill.
- Elgin
The story is set in Kansas, about 564 miles (908 km) from where it was filmed.
Where it’s set vs. where it was filmed
- Set in
- Kansas; Hollywood
- Filmed in
- Elgin
- Distance
- About 564 miles (908 km) between Kansas and the nearest filming location.
- Distance
- About 1,250 miles (2,011 km) between Hollywood and the nearest filming location.
About The Great Waldo Pepper
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- Released
- 1977
- Director
- George Roy Hill
- Cast
- Robert RedfordBo SvensonMargot KidderBo BrundinSusan SarandonGeoffrey LewisEdward HerrmannPhil BrunsKelly Jean PetersRoderick Cook
- Genre
- Drama
The story
1926: World War I veteran Waldo Pepper feels he has missed out on the glory of aerial combat after being made a flight instructor.
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'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.
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