All the Right Stuff

Gordon Cooper Fred Ward Gus Grissom Barbara Hershey Glennis Yeager Kim Stanley Pancho Barnes Veronica Cartwright Betty Grissom Pamela Reed Trudy Cooper Scott Paulin Deke Slayton Charles Frank Scott Carpenter Lance Henriksen Wally Schirra Donald Moffat Edit Storyline Tom Wolfe 's book on the history of the U. America was looking for a hero who had what it takes to become a legend. America found seven of them. Edit Did You Know? Trivia The film cast includes five Oscar nominees: 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. The cameo appearance by the real Chuck Yeager in the film was a particular "treat" which Osborne cited.

The recounting of many of the legendary aspects of Yeager's life was left in place, including the naming of the X-1, "Glamorous Glennis" after his wife and his superstitious preflight ritual of asking for a stick of Beemans chewing gum from his best friend, Jack Ridley. When the film came out, the former and future astronaut Senator John Glenn of Ohio was running for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States. In the weeks before the movie's premiere, media pundits as well as people in the Democratic Party wondered that if the film became a big success, it could give Glenn an advantage in the upcoming primaries, a speculation that eventually proved groundless.

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The Right Stuff won four Academy Awards: Geoffrey Kirkland , Richard Lawrence , W. Stewart Campbell and Peter R. Romero ; Set Decoration: On June 23, , Warner Bros.

These extras are also included in the November 5, release of the 30th Anniversary edition, which also includes a page book binding case, with the film in Blu-ray format. The extras are in standard DVD format. In addition, the British Film Institute published a book on The Right Stuff by Tom Charity in October that offered a detailed analysis and behind-the-scenes anecdotes.

Although an album mix had been prepared by Bill Conti in and indeed the poster contains the credit "Original Soundtrack Available On Geffen Records " , the soundtrack album release was cancelled following the film's disappointing box office. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Right Stuff Theatrical release poster. Rotter Douglas Stewart Tom Rolf. Fred Ward as Virgil I. Senator and Vice President Lyndon B.

He proved this on his Mercury flight when he intentionally blew the hatch on October 3, when his spacecraft was on the deck of the recovery carrier. Washington Post , December 18, From Space to Screen. Virgil Ivan 'Gus' Grissom.

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