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The Right Stuff

Year:
Duration:
193 min
Genres:
Adventure | Drama | History
IMDB rate:
7.9
Director:
Philip Kaufman
Awards:
Won 4 Oscars. Another 11 wins & 11 nominations
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 1983-10-21
Filming Locations: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field - U.S. Route 101, Mountain View, California, USA
Earnings
Budget: $27,000,000
Opening Weekend: $1,601,167 (USA) (23 October 1983)
Gross: $21,500,000 (USA) Rentals $10,400,000 (USA)
Cast
Actor
Character
Mary Jo Deschanel
Mary Jo Deschanel
The Right Stuff
Sam Shepard
Chuck Yeager
Scott Glenn
Alan Shepard
Ed Harris
John Glenn
Dennis Quaid
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
Lyndon B. Johnson
Levon Helm
Jack Ridley
Scott Wilson
Scott Crossfield
Kathy Baker
Louise Shepard
Mickey Crocker
Marge Slayton
Susan Kase
Rene Carpenter
Mittie Smith
Jo Schirra
Royal Dano
Minister
Jim Haynie
Air Force Major
Jeff Goldblum
Recruiter
Harry Shearer
Recruiter
Scott Beach
Chief Scientist
Anthony Munoz
Gonzales
John P. Ryan
Head of Program
Darryl Henriques
Life Reporter
Eric Sevareid
Eric Sevareid
William Russ
Slick Goodlin
Drew Letchworth
The Permanent Press Corps
Christopher P. Beale
The Permanent Press Corps
Richard Dupell
The Permanent Press Corps
William Hall
The Permanent Press Corps
John X. Heart
The Permanent Press Corps
Ed Holmes
The Permanent Press Corps
Jack Bruno Tate
The Permanent Press Corps
Edward Anhalt
Grand Designer
Mary Apick
Woman Reporter
Robert Beer
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Erik Bergmann
Eddie Hodges
James Brady
Aide to Lyndon B. Johnson (as James M. Brady)
Katherine Conklin
Woman TV Reporter
Maureen Coyne
Waitress
Tom Dahlgren
Bell Aircraft Executive
John Lion
Bell Aircraft Executive
Peggy Davis
Sally Rand
John Dehner
Henry Luce
Robert Elross
Review Board President
Drew Eshelman
Assistant Scientist
Robert J. Geary
Game Show M.C.
Royce Grones
1st X-1 Pilot (as Major Royce Grones)
David Gulpilil
Aborigine
Anthony Wallis
Australian Driver (as Anthony Wallace)
Kaaren Lee
Young Widow
Sandy Kronemeyer
Cocoa Beach Girl
Frankie Di
Cocoa Beach Girl
Michael Pritchard
Texan
Ed Corbett
Texan
O-Lan Jones
Girl at Pancho's (as O-Lan Shepard)
Mark Todd
Astronaut Trainee
Allen Gebhardt
Astronaut Trainee (as Alan Gebhart)
Chuck Yeager
Fred (as General Chuck Yeager)
Ed Sullivan
Himself (archive footage)
Gilbert Bazan
Spectator (uncredited)
Ronnie Dee Blaire
Voiceover (uncredited)
Nikolai Bulganin
Himself - Viewing Parade for Gagarin (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bill Dana
José Jimenez (archive footage) (uncredited)
Yuri Gagarin
Himself - Embracing Khrushchev (archive footage) (uncredited)
Lyndon Johnson
Himself - Standing Behind JFK (archive footage) (uncredited)
John F. Kennedy
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Nikita Khrushchev
Himself - Embracing Gagarin (archive footage) (uncredited)
Christopher Kriesa
Mission Control Room Man (uncredited)
Georgi Malenkov
Himself - Viewing Parade for Gagarin (archive footage) (uncredited)
James Mathers
Capt. Mills (uncredited)
Anastas Mikoyan
Himself - Viewing Parade for Gagarin (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mimi Sarkisian
New Mexico Nurse in Lobby (uncredited)
Greg r Stone
Hero Extra (uncredited)
Tony Toscano
Reporter (uncredited)
Kliment Voroshilov
Himself - Viewing Parade for Gagarin (archive footage) (uncredited)
Did you know?
Trivia
While they didn't play their namesakes, two of the actors playing astronauts share the same last name with two actual astronauts. They are Scott and John Glenn and Sam and Alan Shepherd.
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The film's music temp track consisted of music from Holst's The Planets, Henry Mancini's score for The White Dawn and various other classical pieces which were favorites of Director 'Philip Kaufman'.
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American Airlines flight 1 crashed shortly after take off from Jamaica airport (now JFK) during the New York ticker tape parade for John Glenn after his space flight
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Goofs
When the seven astronauts are at a bar that has an underwater view of the pool outside, Deke Slayton can be seen being chased by several girls while waving at the astronauts inside the bar. Deke Slayton couldn't swim.
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The footage of the Sputnik launch and the Vostok flight of Yuri Gagarin was actually the launch of Soyuz rockets.
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After the first manned Mercury flight on 5 May 1961, Alan Shepard is seen stepping from an SH-3 Sea King helicopter onto the recovery aircraft carrier. The SH-3 would not become part of the Navy's operational inventory for another month (June 1961; albeit either in gloss gray or midnight blue colors) and the white over gray color scheme on the SH-3 seen in the movie would not become standard on Navy helos until approximately 1967, six years later. In reality, Shepard stepped from a UH-34 Seahorse (Marine variant of the Sikorsky S-58), number 44, painted in field green with white Marine lettering and numbers.
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Quotes
Deke Slayton: [at press conference] We're not saying anything new here. We're just saying the same things that need to be said again and again with fierce conviction.
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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.
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Gus Grissom: [listening to the NASA recruiter] Say, Hot Dog; what the hell does "astronaut" mean, anyway?
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Photos from cast
David Clennon Mary Jo Deschanel Jane Dornacker
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