Sam Shepard
Capt/Col. Chuck Yeager, Test Pilot
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- Scott GlennCapt. Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr., Mercury Astronaut
- Ed HarrisMaj. John Herschel Glenn Jr., Mercury Astronaut
- Dennis QuaidGordon Cooper
- Fred WardGus Grissom
- Barbara HersheyGlennis Yeager
- Kim StanleyPancho Barnes
- Veronica CartwrightBetty Grissom
- Jane DornackerThe Right Stuff
- Kathy BakerLouise Shepard
Scott PaulinDeke Slayton- Charles FrankScott Carpenter
The Right Stuff - Full Cast & Crew. 91 Metascore. 1983. 3 hr 13 mins. Drama, Action & Adventure. PG. Watchlist. Where to Watch. A profile of the early days of the American space program that...
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This adaptation of the non-fiction novel by Tom Wolfe chronicles the first 15 years of America's space program. By focusing on the lives of the Mercury astronauts, including John Glenn (Ed Harris...
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The film stars Sam Shepard, Ed Harris, Scott Glenn, Fred Ward, Dennis Quaid, and Barbara Hershey; Levon Helm narrates and plays Air Force test pilot Jack Ridley.
Mar 16, 2002 · Edited by. Glenn Farr. Two men haunt Philip Kaufman's "The Right Stuff" (1983), the story of America's first steps into space. One speaks little, the other hardly at all. The laconic one is Chuck Yeager, generally acknowledged as the best test pilot of all time, who judges himself by his achievements, not his words.
It contains uniformly interesting performances by a whole list of unknown or little-known actors, including Ed Harris (Glenn), Scott Glenn (Alan Shepard), Fred Ward (Grissom) and Dennis Quaid (Cooper). It confirms the strong and sometimes almost mystical screen presence of playwright Sam Shepard, who plays Yeager.
