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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: MGM HOME VIDEO (UNDER FOX)
EAN: 9780792859550
Feature: 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 progr
Format: Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792859553
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishSubtitledFrenchSubtitledSpanishSubtitled
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
MPN: 1005992
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 03, 2004
Running Time: 107 minutes
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: December 22, 1961
Features:- 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 progr
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Product Description:
Before Top Gun Apollo 13 or The Right Stuff this breathtaking jet-fueled journey of high-altitude filmmaking blasted audiences from zero-G to 4000 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!Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: PR UPC: 027616902214 Manufacturer No: 1005992
Amazon.com:
Frank Sinatra was among the producers for X-15, an interesting space-race film that marked the feature debut of Richard Donner (the Lethal Weapon series, Timeline) and provided an early lead role for Charles Bronson, who leads a solid cast in this occasionally tense, hardware-driven drama. Bronson, David McLean, and Ralph Taeger are test pilots for the X-15 research vehicle, which brought man to the brink of outer space for the first time. The film divides its running time between scenes of the crew testing the rocket and domestic drama involving their wives and girlfriends (played by Mary Tyler Moore, Patricia Owens, and Lizabeth Hush). James Stewart's narration offers an all-American layer to the script, written by James Ward Bellah (whose stories were adapted by John Ford for She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and Sergeant Rutledge, among others) and producer Tony Lazzarino. Eagle-eyed fans might notice future California congressman Robert Dornan among the ground crew. MGM's widescreen DVD offers no extras. --Paul Gaita
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Rating:  -
After reading so many bad reviews I was hesitant to make the purchase. But I had seen the movie at the theater when it first came out in 1961 and had kept a found memory of it. I had an urge to see it again. Frankly, it was not as bad as I expected.
What people say about the aspect ratio problem is true. Indeed it is disappointing, especially when you consider the fact that with today's technology it would have been relatively easy to make the necessary corrections. That being said, ... Read More
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I had to go it alone in 1961 to see the grand opening of the X-15 story at the old ASCOT Theater in the Bronx. All of my friends, amateur rocket buddies and charter members of the New York Rocket Society would not go to see this then promising film and somehow had the intelligence to tell me not to waste my time. They were all eggheads and must have read some bad reviews in the NY Times.
It was indeed a very bad movie about a great aircraft. Nevertheless, I enjoyed the film even though ... Read More
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I won't add to all the complaints/ explanations about the stretched out footage. Shame on MGM for not fixing this. I have a VHS copy I recorded off of TNT nearly 20 years ago- I'll just watch that version until somebody decides to fix something.
Sadly, the actual aerial footage, now stretched like taffy, is the main selling point of the movie and the best reason for watching this "semi-documentary" (only the names and all the historical facts have been changed to protect the innocent).
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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 ... Read More
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What a piece of garbage...Amazon should immediately refund everyone's money and then bring legal action againest whomever is resposible for this abomination of a DVD. Did no one attempt to watch this prior to it's release? Probably did and were promptly bored to death....Lynn Stubblefield, Nashville, TN...btw, one star because there is no way to leave them all blank...
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