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| Warner Bros. (1983) | |||||
| Action, Adventure, Drama | |||||
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#108 |
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| Sam Shepard | Capt/Col. Chuck Yeager | |
| Scott Glenn | Capt. Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. | |
| Dennis Quaid | Capt. Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr. | |
| Ed Harris | Maj. John Herschel Glenn Jr., | |
| Scott Paulin | Capt. Donald Kent Slayton | |
| Fred Ward | Capt. Virgil Ivan Grissom | |
| Barbara Hershey | Glennis Yeager | |
| Kim Stanley | Pancho Barnes | |
| Veronica Cartwright | Betty Grissom | |
| Pamela Reed | Trudy Cooper | |
| Charles Frank | Scott Carpenter | |
| Lance Henriksen | Wally Schirra | |
| Donald Moffat | Lyndon B. Johnson | |
| Levon Helm | Capt. Jack Ridley/Narrator | |
| Mary Jo Deschanel | Annie Glenn |
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| Producer | Robert Chartoff
Irwin Winkler |
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| Writer | Philip Kaufman
Tom Wolfe |
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| Cinematography |
Caleb Deschanel
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| Musician | Bill Conti
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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. |
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