X-15 | David McLean, Charles Bronson

X-15 | David McLean, Charles Bronson | Fast craft - slow acting !

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X-15

	X-15 David McLean, Charles Bronson MGM (Video & DVD), 2004 average customer review:based on 10 reviews view larger image
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Before Top Gun, Apollo 13 or The Right Stuff, this breathtaking, jet-fueled journey of high-altitude filmmaking blasted audiences from zero-G to 4,000 miles per hour with its thrilling tale of America's victory in the space race. Starring David McLean, Charles Bronson and Mary Tyler Moore, X-15 sets the sky as the limitfor excitement! 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!

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I really enjoyed this movie. It was very entertaining. The actores were great. Having first hand knowlege of the X-15 project, Ihought it was fairly accuarte.

Fast craft - slow acting !

X-15 is very much a creature of its time.

With narration by James Stewart and the semi-documentary approach it is embedded in the cold war era.

The stock footage of the X-15 flights is stunning and the speed of the approach and landings remind you of how this craft paved the way for the space shuttle.

If only the acting could have had a fraction of the speed of the X-15.
Charles Bronson plods through the film - one can also imagine him breathing a sign of relief when his character no longer takes part in the procedings.

Mary-Tyler-Moore is used for decoration purposes only, and none of the characters seem to exist beyond their script outlines.

The film is one for people who will only watch it for the X-15.
My son as every summed it up as:
Many people in crew cuts and short sleeve shirts saying `Roger' to each other !

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