Written by William Goldman, Oscar winner for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, this elegiac homage to World War One fliers who became barnstorming aerial stuntmen in the Twenties reunited Robert Redford with George Roy Hill, director of his two hits Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Sting. Redford, as the disillusioned pilot reduced to defying death in an air circus, gives one of his best, least self-admiring performances and Susan Sarandon, as always, is superb, even though very much at the beginning of her career. Stunning flying scenes and an intelligent screenplay are major assets, and it is genuinely surprising that the film failed to take off at the box-office.

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