5/15/2023 0 Comments The right stuff novel![]() ![]() It was as if the screen writers had a personal vendetta against him, to make him look almost like a cartoon figure. The only unnecessary and ludicrous parts of this film were the ones on Lyndon Johnson, where they made him into a total fool. ![]() Then we are treated to a long-but-interesting segment of how those first astronauts were trained. Yeager's feats were perhaps the most interesting and they set a fast tone to this 3-hour film as we witness him breaking several sound-barrier records prior to the formation of the astronaut team. I also enjoyed Scott Glenn as Alan Shepard and Barbara Hershey as Yeager's wife. Overall, it's a good cast including not just the fliers but their wives. Gordon Cooper might be the wildest with the cocky and humorous Dennis Quaid playing him. John Glenn (Ed Harris) gets favorable treatment in here among the group. Those astronauts - the Mercury 7 pilots - are a varied group of aviators and they are all pretty interesting guys. An interesting insight into the United States' space program, beginning with the exploits of fighter pilot Chuck Yeager (Sam Shephard) and concluding with the dramatic flights of the first astronauts. ![]()
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