The Right Stuff: Directed by Philip Kaufman. With Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Dennis Quaid. The U.S. space program's development from the breaking of the sound barrier to selection of the Mercury 7 astronauts, from a group of test pilots with a more seat-of-the-pants approach than the program's more cautious engineers preferred.

The film stars Sam Shepard, Ed Harris, Scott Glenn, Fred Ward, Dennis Quaid, and Barbara Hershey; Levon Helm narrates and plays Air Force test pilot Jack Ridley. The Right Stuff was a box-office bomb, grossing about $21 million (domestically) against a $27 million budget.

Gordon Cooper : Look, the man has got to go! Now it's either that or we get out the lug wrench and pry him out... Chief Scientist : [with resignation] Do it... in the suit. Gordon Cooper : José, permission to wet your diapers anytime son. Scott Carpenter : [1:34:25] John's right! Now, whether we like it or not, we're public figures.

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The Right Stuff is a 1983 film directed by Phillip Kaufmann and starring Sam Shepard, Ed Harris, Barbara Hershey, Dennis Quaid, Fred Ward, Scott Glenn, Veronica Cartwright and Donald Moffat as President Lyndon Johnson. The film is based on Tom Wolfe's book of …

NASA recruits seven test pilots, training them to become astronauts for the Mercury Space Program in an attempt to surpass the Russian space program.

2011年2月8日 · Ed Harris, Barbara Hershey, Sam Shepard, Dennis Quaid and Fred Ward are among the perfect cast of this winner of 4 Academy Awards* that in a pristine 20th-anniversary digital transfer remains the stuff of must-see entertainment.

Sam Shepard and Dennis Quaid play polar opposites in The Right Stuff, the story of the United States’ most famous penis-measuring contest. Every time Jeff Goldblum runs down the hall to deliver disheartening news about Russia giving us the space race smack down, our resolve to redeem ourselves grows.

2024年11月5日 · An expert review of the 1983 historical drama The Right Stuff praises the space epic's realism. Directed by Philip Kaufman and adapted from Tom Wolfe’s 1979 book, the film chronicles the lives of Navy, Marine, and Air Force test pilots involved in pioneering aeronautical research, as well as the Mercury Seven—the first astronauts chosen for ...

2021年1月18日 · Quaid, his brush cut setting off his all-American jock looks, is a grinning satyr whose nerveless calm is one of the film’s best running gags.