The Right Stuff (1983). Philip Kaufman’s classic telling the story of US pilots first breaking the sound barrier and then going to space as the first US astronauts. Full on America-propaganda and entertaining as hell with a great cast. Three hours and ten minutes long, and it just flies by. I can’t understand how, but it feels like about 90 minutes. Chuck Yeger outlived Sam Shepard who plays him in this by three years which is something. There’s a quote in the film about US test pilots having a chance of one in four of dying every time they got up there.
