Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies

Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies (1973)

RomanceDramaAdventure

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.

Director: John Erman
Writer: Claudia Salter

Casts

	Cliff Robertson as Ace Eli Walford
	Eric Shea as Roger Walford
	Pamela Franklin as Shelby
	Rosemary Murphy as Hannah
	Bernadette Peters as Allison
	Alice Ghostley as Sister Lite
	Kelly Jean Peters as Rachel
	Don Keefer as Mr. Parsons
	Patricia Smith as Mrs. Wilma Walford
	Royal Dano as Jake
	Robert Hamm as Dumb Dickie
	Herb Gatlin as Frank Savage
	Arthur Malet as Brother Watson
	Ariana Munker as Betty Jo
	Hope Summers as Laura
	Jim Boles as Abraham
	Lew Brown as Harrison
	Brent Hurst as Mrs. Parsons
	Jan Simms as Mrs. Parsons
	Rodger Peck as Leroy
	Claudia Bryar as Ann
	Jerry Ayres as Gambler

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