Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies
Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies
Overview
The story of Ace Eli Walford, a 1920s stunt flyer who barnstorms around the country, taking his eleven-year-old son Rodger with him as he goes from town to town. The place is rural Kansas, and the time is midsummer in the early nineteen-twenties, not long after World War I. Eli (Cliff Robertson), a barn storming pilot who has the emotional make-up of an 11-year-old, and Rodger (Eric Shea), his 11-year-old son who possesses the wisdom of the ancients, set off to see the world, which means flying all the way to San Willow. To Eli, San Willow seems to be as fabled as Xanadu and quite as remote. In essence, "Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies" is about the adventures of Rodger and Eli getting from nowhere to nowhere. Eli, a killer with the ladies at first, always leaves them unsatisfied. He seems to have a sex problem. Rodger spends a lot of his time getting his dad out of scrapes. He also drinks, smokes and goes to sleep at night crying for his deceased mom.
Cast
Cliff Robertson
Eric Shea
Pamela Franklin
Rosemary Murphy
Bernadette Peters
Alice Ghostley
Kelly Jean Peters
Don Keefer
Patricia Smith
Royal Dano
Robert Hamm
Herb Gatlin
Arthur Malet
Ariana Munker
Hope Summers
Jim Boles
Lew Brown
Brent Hurst
Jan Simms
Rodger Peck
Claudia Bryar
Jerry Ayres
Crew
Steven Spielberg
James Cresson
Robert Fryer
John Erman
Jerry Goldsmith
Kathleen McCandless
Claudia Salter
David M. Walsh
Robert Belcher
Lou Lombardo
Edward R. Morse
Joel Schiller
Jack Martin Smith
Theadora Van Runkle
Robert De Vestel
Walter M. Scott
Janice Brunson
Edwin Butterworth
