In this episode of the show we are soaring into the skies together with The Great Waldo Pepper, which is the 1975 George Roy Hill movie that the filmmaker held as the most personal and important movie he had ever made. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about the ways in which The Great Waldo Pepper connects to George Roy Hill’s lifelong passion for flying as well as his history as a pilot during wartime and how the movie broke all possible safety rules and whose stuntmanship would stand toe to toe with the latest instalments of the Mission: Impossible series. We also talk about the significance or insignificance of female characters in this movie, how the concept of pursuing a rush maps possibly onto the personality of a 70s Hollywood director and how there is a distinct relationship between the way commerce infringed on the freedom of the skies and how safety regulations rendered making stunts-heavy movies impossible to produce.

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