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Release Date: 1983

Cast: Pamela Reed, Susan Kase, Charles Frank, Chuck Yeager, Donald Moffat, Ed Harris, Jeff Goldblum, Fred Ward, Kim Stanley, Kathy Baker, Scott Wilson, Levon Helm ...MORE

Cast: Pamela Reed, Susan Kase, Charles Frank, Chuck Yeager, Donald Moffat, Ed Harris, Jeff Goldblum, Fred Ward, Kim Stanley, Kathy Baker, Scott Wilson, Levon Helm, Scott Glenn, Mickey Crocker, Harry Shearer, Dennis Quaid, Royal Dano, Veronica Cartwright, Sam Shepard, Mary Jo Deschanel, Scott Paulin, Barbara Hershey, Lance Henriksen, Mittie Smith ...LESS

Categories: Movies, History, Period piece, Adventure, Docudrama, Film adaptation

The Right Stuff is a 1983 American film adapted from Tom Wolfe's 1979 book The Right Stuff about the test pilots who were involved in high-speed aeronautical research at Edwards Air Force Base as well as those selected to be astronauts for Project Mercury, the United States' first attempt at manned spaceflight. The story contrasts the "Mercury Seven" and their families with pilots like Chuck Yeager. While never selected as an astronaut, Yeager was considered by many test pilots to be the best of them all. The Mercury Seven were Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally... MORE

The Right Stuff is a 1983 American film adapted from Tom Wolfe's 1979 book The Right Stuff about the test pilots who were involved in high-speed aeronautical research at Edwards Air Force Base as well as those selected to be astronauts for Project Mercury, the United States' first attempt at manned spaceflight. The story contrasts the "Mercury Seven" and their families with pilots like Chuck Yeager. While never selected as an astronaut, Yeager was considered by many test pilots to be the best of them all. The Mercury Seven were Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Deke Slayton. The film stars Scott Glenn as Shepard, Ed Harris as Glenn, Fred Ward as Grissom, Dennis Quaid as Cooper and Sam Shepard as Yeager. The film begins in 1947 at Muroc Army Air Field, an arid California military base where test pilots often die flying high-speed aircraft such as the rocket-powered Bell X-1. After another pilot demands $150,000 to attempt to break the sound barrier, war hero Chuck Yeager (Sam Shepard) receives the chance to fly the X-1. While on a horseback ride with his wife Glennis (Barbara Hershey), Yeager collides with a tree branch and LESS