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Release Date: 1961

Cast: Patty McDonald, Patricia Owens, Chuck Stanford, Lisabeth Hush, Ralph Taeger, Phil Dean, Stanley Livingston, Mary Tyler Moore, James Gregory, Charles Bronson, Brad Dexter, Lauren Gilbert ...MORE

Cast: Patty McDonald, Patricia Owens, Chuck Stanford, Lisabeth Hush, Ralph Taeger, Phil Dean, Stanley Livingston, Mary Tyler Moore, James Gregory, Charles Bronson, Brad Dexter, Lauren Gilbert, Kenneth Tobey, David McLean ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Action/Adventure, Adventure Drama, Drama Film, Action

X-15 is a 1961 dramatic aviation film that presents a fictionalized account of the X-15 research rocket plane program, the test pilots who flew the aircraft and the associated NASA community that supported the program. X-15 starred David McLean, Charles Bronson, Mary Tyler Moore (in her first feature film role), Kenneth Tobey and James Gregory. The film marked the directorial debut of Richard Donner, and was narrated by James Stewart. The experimental X-15 program at Edwards Air Force Base involves test pilots: civilian Matt Powell (David McLean), Lt. Col. Lee Brandon (Charles Bronson) and... MORE

X-15 is a 1961 dramatic aviation film that presents a fictionalized account of the X-15 research rocket plane program, the test pilots who flew the aircraft and the associated NASA community that supported the program. X-15 starred David McLean, Charles Bronson, Mary Tyler Moore (in her first feature film role), Kenneth Tobey and James Gregory. The film marked the directorial debut of Richard Donner, and was narrated by James Stewart. The experimental X-15 program at Edwards Air Force Base involves test pilots: civilian Matt Powell (David McLean), Lt. Col. Lee Brandon (Charles Bronson) and Maj. Ernest Wilde (Ralph Taeger). The cutting edge high-speed program is ramrodded by project chief Tom Deparma (James Gregory) and US Air Force Col. Craig Brewster (Kenneth Tobey). As the test pilots prepare for the planned launch of the rocket plane from a Boeing B-52 Stratofortress mother ship, they experience emotional and physical problems, which they share with their wives and sweethearts. Test after test results in setbacks, including a near disaster when an engine explodes during a ground test and engulfs the X-15 and its pilot in flames, but finally the X-15 begins to set records in LESS