The Gypsy Moths (1969)

Plot: Three barnstorming skydivers put on a thrill show in a small Kansas Town
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Gene Hackman
Best Quote:  Picture is a lack-lustre affair insofar as the character relationships are concerned. The stars do not appear particularly happy with their roles. Lancaster seldom speaking, Kerr not particularly well cast - Variety

This is the kind of movie they did much better back in the 1930's. Had it been made in 1939 - instead of 1969 - you would've had Clark Gable and Spenser Tracy as two thrill-seeking skydivers fighting over Myrna Loy, with everyone having a grand ol' time.

But its 1969 - so we get Burt, Gene Hackman, and Kerr  having "issues" and a downer ending. And the whole tone and pace of the film is wrong.  When we're not skydiving, its about as much fun as a funeral dirge - and moves at the same pace - with a depressed Lancaster committing suicide by parachute.  Meanwhile, Hackman is completely unlikable, and Wilson makes little impression.

As with The Great Waldo Pepper we're supposed to sympathize with the obnoxious performers as opposed to the "hicks" they're forced to live with. After all, they're in small town Kansas - where everyone's a dullard or living a life of quiet desperation. No wonder the rubes are super-impressed by parachuting*

Lancaster Performance
Burt is incredibly low-key and bland in this one. His character is depressed/suicidal but Lancaster can't portray any emotion that's not verbal. So, you get no sense of unspoken anger or inner turmoil. Lancaster just looks kinda sad - and then kills himself.  And we don't really care, because he's that way from the beginning.

* Nobody in 1969, even in small town Kansas, was overly impressed by "Skydiving" in the 1969.  Good grief, you had sky diving clubs all over the USA, and Army Paratroopers since 1941.