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Philip Kaufman's epic yet gripping film begins with test pilot Chuck Yeager Sam Shepard going for a drink in a local bar, and casually signing up to break the sound barrier. Then he falls off his horse while riding it around the desert in a daring competition with his firecracker wife Glennis Barbara Hershey.
He breaks two ribs, but pretends to be fine so they won't take him off the mission — and then successfully pilots the Bell X-1, becoming the first man to go faster than the speed of sound. Yeager appears to have sprung straight from the Big Book of American Heroes — strong jaw, cowboy hat, horse sense, stoic manner — but he really was like this, and doubtless still is. He last broke the sound barrier in , aged 89 , in an F The answer is swiftly and amusingly illustrated when his aides cannot find the plug socket to get the meeting-room projector working.
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The chief scientist is unflustered. The Americans plan to retaliate with the first manned space flight, though some think they should use an animal rather than a person. Possible candidates for astronauts included surfers, acrobats and rally drivers "They already have their own helmets," says a scientific adviser, chirpily.
The film is right that it was Eisenhower who insisted that astronauts be drawn from a field of test pilots — even though they would have little role in actually piloting the craft. The star of the Mercury Seven is John Glenn Ed Harris — for he is both handsome and incredibly good at spouting wholesome patriotic platitudes in front of newsmen.
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Chief Scientist Jane Dornacker Nurse Murch Anthony Munoz Head of Program Darryl Henriques Life Reporter Eric Sevareid Eric Sevareid William Russ Slick Goodlin Drew Letchworth Grand Designer Mary Apick Woman Reporter Robert Beer Eddie Hodges James Brady Aide to Lyndon B. Johnson as James M.
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. Young Widow Sandy Kronemeyer Cocoa Beach Girl Frankie Di Cocoa Beach Girl Michael Pritchard Astronaut Trainee Allen Gebhardt Fred as General Chuck Yeager Rest of cast listed alphabetically: Himself archive footage Gilbert Bazan Spectator uncredited Alan Bendich Voiceover uncredited Nikolai Bulganin Himself uncredited Shawn Flanagan The story of the original Mercury 7 astronauts and their macho, seat-of-the-pants approach to the space program.
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Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Edit Cast Cast overview, first billed only: 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