Pancho Barnes

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Pancho Barnes ★★½ 1988 (PG)

Routine biography of one of the first female pilots of the 1920s. Barnes is a bored debutante who finds her challenge in life when she learns to fly, becoming a barnstormer and movie stunt pilot. Her ambitions naturally get in the way of her romantic life. Good flying scenes. 150m/C VHS . Valerie Bertinelli, Ted Wass, Sam Robards, James Stephens, Cynthia Harris, Geoffrey Lewis; D: Richard T. Heffron; W: John Michael Hayes. TV

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