La storia dei magnifici sette astronauti del piano Mercury, Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, Deke Slayton, Scott Carpenter, Wally Schirra, Gordon Cooper e Chuck Yeager, il coraggioso pilota e pion... Leggi tuttoLa storia dei magnifici sette astronauti del piano Mercury, Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, Deke Slayton, Scott Carpenter, Wally Schirra, Gordon Cooper e Chuck Yeager, il coraggioso pilota e pioniere dello spazio che nel 47 infranse la barriera del suono.La storia dei magnifici sette astronauti del piano Mercury, Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, Deke Slayton, Scott Carpenter, Wally Schirra, Gordon Cooper e Chuck Yeager, il coraggioso pilota e pioniere dello spazio che nel 47 infranse la barriera del suono.
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- 12 vittorie e 16 candidature totali
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- QuizAccording to NASA, the mysterious "fireflies" observed by John Glenn on his first orbital flight were actually condensed ice crystals from the small hydrogen peroxide rockets used for altitude control illuminated by sunlight. Upon uses many of them formed a particulate cloud around the spacecraft and many attached themselves to the skin of the vehicle as well.. A This was confirmed by astronaut Scott Carpenter on the next Mercury flight when he banged on the craft's side, causing more of the flakes to break free and become visible.
- BlooperDuring the second funeral sequence, Gordo Cooper is wearing decorations on his service dress uniform denoting service in the Korean War. In reality, Cooper was the only member of the "Original Seven" who was not a combat veteran.
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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.
- Versioni alternativeABC edited 5 minutes from this film for its 1986 network television premiere.
- ConnessioniEdited into Waiting for 'Superman' (2010)
- Colonne sonoreSouthwestern Waltz
Written by Vaughn Horton (uncredited)
Performed by Bob Wills
Courtesy of MCA Records, Inc.
There was the odd, stilted dialogue, especially among the fliers and their families, as they discuss (or as the case my be, don't discuss) what it means to have the "right stuff" of the title. There are the customarily nerdy performances of Jeff Goldblum and Harry Shearer in small roles as NASA recruiters. There is the truly over-the-top performance of Donald Moffat as Vice President Lyndon Johnson (who was a pretty over-the-top character in real life, now that I think of it). There are the German rocket scientists, the gaunt black-clad Angel-of-Death-type minister (Royal Dano) who turns up whenever a flyer gets killed, and the throng of reporters who chase after the astronauts and their families, literally barking like a pack of dogs as they pry into the most intimate parts of their lives for the sake of another human interest story.
Even so, this movie was very entertaining. The story itself is fascinating, and the cast was great. Standouts include Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Fred Ward, Dennis Quaid, Veronica Cartwright, Pamela Reed, Kathy Baker, Barabara Hershey, Mary Jo Deschanel, Lance Henriksen, Levon Helm, and General Chuck Yeager himself in a cameo! It perhaps worth mentioning that most of these actors were relative unknowns when this movie came out in 1983.
All in all, this is a fun movie.
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- Budget
- 27.000.000 USD (previsto)
- Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
- 21.192.102 USD
- Fine settimana di apertura Stati Uniti e Canada
- 1.601.167 USD
- 23 ott 1983
- Lordo in tutto il mondo
- 21.192.315 USD
- Tempo di esecuzione3 ore 13 minuti
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- Proporzioni
- 1.85 : 1