Rendező:
Richard DonnerOperatőr:
Carl E. GuthrieZeneszerző:
Nathan ScottSzereplők:
David McLean, Charles Bronson, Brad Dexter, Kenneth Tobey, Mary Tyler Moore, James Gregory, Patricia Owens, Richard Norris, James Stewart (narrátor) (több)Tartalmak(1)
The courageous pilots of the Air Force's X-15 program are determined to take an experimental rocket 100 miles above the earth at four times the speed of sound! At stake is American air supremacy and proof that space travelis possible. But also at stake are their lives and the lives of the terrified wives they've left behind! (forgalmazó hivatalos szövege)
(több)Recenziók (1)
My theory was that during the space race boom, NASA commissioned a popularization film that would justify the giant investment in starflight to the common working folk through a reminiscent melodrama about the brave men behind the stick and their terrified wives waiting patiently at the stove. I was therefore quite surprised to learn that in fact the subject matter had been there first, and that the documentary form of the film was in fact because producer Bob Hope had secured the support of the Pentagon for it, and through them NASA and the USAAF, who supplied a lot of actual footage of test launches and flights, around which the rest of the original film's plot was then simply wrapped. The result is appropriately bizarre, with long technical scenes of dramatically measuring cabin pressure and switching between communication channels interspersed with theatrical kisses, fatherly monologues, or the angry smashing of a telescope by a child who no longer wants to be an astronaut. It doesn't hold together one bit, but for aviation buffs of a certain era, this may be quite the rarity porn.
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