Movie List
The Right Stuff
Ladd Company (1983)
Action, Adventure, Drama
193 mins
PG (Parental Guidance)
Sam ShepardChuck Yeager
Scott GlennAlan Shepard
Ed HarrisJohn Glenn
Dennis QuaidGordon Cooper
Fred WardGus Grissom
Barbara HersheyGlennis Yeager
Kim StanleyPancho Barnes
Veronica CartwrightBetty Grissom
Pamela ReedTrudy Cooper
Scott PaulinDeke Slayton
Charles FrankScott Carpenter
Lance HenriksenWally Schirra
Donald MoffatLyndon B. Johnson
Levon HelmJack Ridley
Mary Jo DeschanelAnnie Glenn
Director Philip Kaufman
Producer James D. Brubaker
Robert Chartoff
Writer Philip Kaufman
Tom Wolfe
Cinematography Caleb Deschanel
Musician Bill Conti
A chronicle of the original Mercury astronauts in the formation of America’s space program: Alan Shepherd, the first American in space; Gus Grissom, the benighted astronaut for whom nothing works out as planned; John Glenn, the straight-arrow ‘boy scout’ of the bunch who was the first American to orbit the earth; and the remaining pilots: Deke Slayton, Scott Carpenter and Wally Schirra