X-15 [IMPORT]

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• Release Year: 1961
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: Before there was Apollo 13, there was X-15.; 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 limit - for 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 travel is possible. but also at stake are their lives... and the lives of the terrified wives they've left behind. ; ; DE; Das experimentelle X-15-Programm auf der Edwards Air Force Base beinhaltet auch hartgesottene Testpiloten: Matt Powell, Oberstleutnant Brandon Lee und Maj. Ernest Wilde. Das High-Speed-Programm wird von Projektleiter Tom Deparma und U.S. Air Force Col. Craig Brewster überwacht. Für den geplanten Raketenstart, ausgehend von einer Boeing B-52, erleben die Testpiloten psychische und physische Belastungsanforderungen, die sie mit ihren Ehefrauen und Freundinnen teilen.
• Cast: David McLean, Charles Bronson, Ralph Taeger, Brad Dexter, Kenneth Tobey, James Gregory, Mary Tyler Moore, Lisabeth Hush, Stanley Livingston, Lauren Gilbert, Phil Dean, Chuck Stanford, Patty McDonald, Ric Applewhite, Robert Dornan, Ed Fleming, Lee Giroux, Darlene Hendricks, Grant Holcomb, Lew Irwin, Barbara Kelley, Jerry Lawrence, Mike MacKane, Richard Norris, Pat Renella, James Stewart, Frank Watkins, Patricia Owens, Richard Donner
• Director: Richard Donner
• Runtime: 1:47
• Company: MGM / UA
• Media Format: Movie