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The Right Stuff (1983)
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The original US Mercury 7 astronauts and their macho, seat-of-the-pants approach to the space program. Director:Philip Kaufman |
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Won 4 Oscars.
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| Sam Shepard | ... | ||
| Scott Glenn | ... | ||
| Ed Harris | ... | ||
| Dennis Quaid | ... | ||
| Fred Ward | ... | ||
| Barbara Hershey | ... | ||
| Kim Stanley | ... | ||
| Veronica Cartwright | ... | ||
| Pamela Reed | ... | ||
| Scott Paulin | ... | ||
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Charles Frank | ... | |
| Lance Henriksen | ... | ||
| Donald Moffat | ... |
Lyndon B. Johnson
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| Levon Helm | ... |
Jack Ridley
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Mary Jo Deschanel | ... | |
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Tom Wolfe's book on the history of the U.S. Space program reads like a novel, and the film has that same fictional quality. It covers the breaking of the sound barrier by Chuck Yeager to the Mercury 7 astronauts, showing that no one had a clue how to run a space program or how to select people to be in it. Thrilling, funny, charming and electrifying all at once. Written by John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
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How the future began. See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USARelease Date:
(USA) See more »Also Known As:
Der Stoff aus dem die Helden sind See more »Filming Locations:
California & Montgomery, Financial District, San Francisco, California, USA See more »Box Office
Budget:
$27,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$1,601,167 (USA) (23 October 1983) (229 Screens)Gross:
$21,500,000 (USA)Company Credits
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Color (Technicolor)Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1
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Narrator: There was a demon that lived in the air. They said whoever challenged him would die. Their controls would freeze up, their planes would buffet wildly, and they would disintegrate. The demon lived at Mach 1 on the meter, seven hundred and fifty miles an hour, where the air could no longer move out of the way. He lived behind a barrier through which they said no man could ever pass. They called it the sound barrier.
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Chuck Yeager is credited in the role of Fred as "General" Chuck Yeager. In fact he is a two-star general, which carries the title "Major General". See more »Goofs
Revealing mistakes: The shot of the B-29 starting its engine shows a small air intake immediately behind the propeller, and is clearly painted black along the bottom half of the engine cowling and underside of the wing. However, the shot of the B-29/X-1 combination taking off for the sound barrier flight is archival footage of a B-50 carrying an X-1. The B-50 was an updated model of the B-29 with improved engines. The updated engines have larger air intakes set much farther behind the propellers. Also, the B-50 shows no black coloring, instead it's unpainted aluminum. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Narrator: There was a demon that lived in the air. They said whoever challenged him would die. Their controls would freeze up, their planes would buffet wildly, and they would disintegrate. The demon lived at Mach 1 on the meter, seven hundred and fifty miles an hour, where the air could no longer move out of the way. He lived behind a barrier through which they said no man could ever pass. They called it the sound barrier.
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