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bland Air Force Audio Visual Services film that turned into a feature. One of the film's producers was Frank Sinatra, and actor Brad Dexter was at this time sort of a producer wheeler-dealer as well. The film may have started as a government publicity effort, as the idea that the X-15 program is in trouble with the press and Washington is given more attention than anything else in the movie." Even for aviation aficionados, the film is a failure because the production is an "anamorphic movie with an aspect ratio of 2:35. All the original "docu" shots of the real jets and rockets were photographed at the standard narrow 1:37." The jarring back-and-forth between a standard widescreen format and NASA footage that is stretched and distorted relegates the film to a curiosity. In his DVD review, Erickson did not properly express the aspect ratios - where he used "1:37", it should be taken to mean 1.37:1 for example. Only the USAF crash scene footage retains the
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In a more recent appraisal of the film, reviewer Glenn Erickson confronted the two critical failings of the film, emphasizing that Donner's direction resulted in an insipid portrait while short-cutting production values also led to an unsatisfying result. Erickson states clearly, "X-15 plays like a
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commented that it was "A surprisingly appealing and sensible low-budget picture—a semi-documentary with some harmless fictional embroidery ..." Most reviews centered on the accurate portrayal of the U.S. space effort, but disparaged the tepid romantic storyline, even suggesting that the film should
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Test after test results in setbacks, including a near disaster when an engine explodes during a ground test and engulfs the X-15 and its pilot in flames, but finally the X-15 begins to set records in speed and altitude for a piloted aircraft. When the X-15 "flames out" on a high altitude run, after
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A archived letter from NASA Armstrong (then Dryden) to the movie producers, reviewing the script prior to production, had recommended a different scenario for a fatal X-15 accident. It cited maximum risk as beginning reentry from space with the X-15 at an inappropriate orientation. That situation
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made a recommendation that the newly introduced X-15 aircraft held out much more promise as a film subject. With $ 350,000 assigned for primary shooting, with an additional $ 72,500 for post-production work, by August 1960, pre-production had moved from Hope Enterprises (Hope's film company) to
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involves test pilots: civilian Matt Powell, Lt. Col. Lee Brandon, and Maj. Ernest Wilde. The cutting edge high-speed program is ramrodded by project chief Tom Deparma and US Air Force Col. Craig Brewster. As the test pilots prepare for the planned launch of the rocket-powered aircraft from a
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quickly faded from movie screens, and was unable to gain much traction from foreign releases. Rarely shown on television, with its first airing only in 1979, the film was released briefly in VHS in 1983 and was released on DVD in 2004.
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raved, "Whatever its serious scientific intentions, the X-15 is an almost unbelievable screen spectacular." Considered a realistic look at the lives of the X-15 pilots and the efforts to fly into space, the review in
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Pentagon assistance was largely responsible for the attention to detail and accurate portrayal of the NASA program. Much of the principal photography for the film was undertaken at Edwards Air Force Base and the
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On June 8, 1960, the explosion of the definitive XLR-99 engine ruptured the X-15-3 while pilot Scott Crossfield was on board. The X-15 was eventually repaired and modified to emerge as the X-15A-3.
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sounded a cautious note, calling it "a rather dubious prospect. Much too technically involved for the layman—at times, it resembles a training film more than popular entertainment."
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experienced a hypersonic spin on reentry. The result was final destruction of the #3 X-15 and the only X-15 pilot fatality. The probable cause was pilot vertigo while in space.
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flown by Lt. Barty R. Brooks. Another critical scene involved the X-15-3 being destroyed on the test stand when the rocket engine exploded, using stock footage of the accident.
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Released just as the actual rocket aircraft was making headlines in breaking speed and altitude records and reaching the upper edges of the stratosphere,
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with original photography, with a minimum of special effects work using animation. In a pivotal scene of the chase aircraft crashing,
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of NASA and original film footage was intended to present a realistic representation of the X-15 research flights.
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was critically reviewed, receiving praise for its authenticity. Following its premiere in Washington, D.C.,
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North American Aviation was the manufacturer of both the X-15 and the F-100s used as NASA chase aircraft.
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program, writer/producer and later screenwriter, Tony Lazzarino shopped the project around
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served as technical advisors on the film. Thompson himself later became an X-15 pilot.
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guiding the X-15 to a safe landing, saving Powell's life, Lt. Col. Brandon, flying a
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have been made as a documentary. Despite generally favorable reviews,
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Hardwick, Jack and Ed Schnepf. "A Buff's Guide to Aviation Movies".
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Both James Stewart and Charles Bronson served (separately) with the
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program, the test pilots who flew the aircraft, and the associated
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Broadcasters Ed Fleming and Lee Giroux appear as themselves in a
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The film featured carefully edited NASA footage of X-15 flights
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used US Air Force archival footage of the January 10, 1956, "
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Mary Tyler Moore mentioned the film during an appearance on
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Stewart was not only interested in aviation but was also a
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Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 1989.
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Parish, James Robert, Don E. Stanke and Michael R. Pitts.
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The X-15 Rocket Plane: Flying the First Wings into Space
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As appearing in screen credits (main roles identified):
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Chuck Stanford as Lieutenant Commander Joe Lacrosse
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Richard D. Donner
James Warner Bellah
David McLean
Charles Bronson
James Gregory
Mary Tyler Moore
James Stewart
Carl Guthrie
Stanley Rabjohn
Nathan Scott
United Artists
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Washington, D.C.
Technicolor
aviation
drama film
fictionalized
X-15
research
rocket aircraft
NASA
David McLean
Charles Bronson
James Gregory
Mary Tyler Moore
feature film directorial debut
Richard Donner
James Stewart
North American X-15

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