The Right Stuff is a movie directed by Philip Kaufman in 1983 and based on the book of the same name by Tom Wolfe, first published in 1979. The movie features Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Barbara Hershey, Dennis Quaid, Pamela Reed, Sam Shepard, and others.
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Storyline
The film begins in 1947 at the Muroc Army Air Field in California, with civilian and military test pilots flight-testing high-speed aircraft, including the rocket-powered Bell X-1. While horseback riding with his wife, Glennis, the evening before his historic flight, Yeager falls and breaks his ribs, an injury which inhibits his ability to lock the door on the X-1.
Movie vs Book
Year
1983
Minutes
193
Movie Rate
7.80
Source: IMDb
Movie
The Right Stuff
Director: Philip Kaufman
Country: USA
Year: 1983
Length: 3h13m
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Year
1979
Pages
369
Book Rate
8.46
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Book
The Right Stuff
Author: Tom Wolfe
Country: USA
First published in: 1979
Length: 369 pages
Genre: Biography
Other screen adaptations of the book
TV Series by Mark Lafferty
User polls & recommendations
“It’s such a complicated thing to put a movie together. The book world is so much simpler.”
ARTHUR SLADE (Writer)
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