The Right Stuff
How the future began.
1983-10-20 | 193 minutes
Plot Summary
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, Wally Schirra, and Gordon Cooper.
Cast
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Sam ShepardChuck Yeager
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Scott GlennAlan Shepard
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Ed HarrisJohn Glenn
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Dennis QuaidGordon Cooper
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Fred WardGus Grissom
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Barbara HersheyGlennis Yeager
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Kim StanleyPancho Barnes
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Veronica CartwrightBetty Grissom
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Pamela ReedTrudy Cooper
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Scott PaulinDeke Slayton
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Charles FrankScott Carpenter
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Lance HenriksenWally Schirra
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Donald MoffatLyndon B. Johnson
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Levon HelmJack Ridley / Narrator
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Mary Jo DeschanelAnnie Glenn
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Scott WilsonScott Crossfield
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Kathy BakerLouise Shepard
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