Claim: The Great Waldo Pepper's cast included Robert Redford.
Evidence: 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 his sense of postwar dislocation in 1920s America.
The Great Waldo Pepper is a 1975 American drama film directed , produced , and co-written by George Roy Hill.