The Right Stuff (1983)
The film, based on Tom Wolfe's book on the history of the U.S. Space program, covers the breaking of the sound barrier by Chuck Yeager to the Mercury 7 astronauts, showing that no one had a clue how to run a space program or how to select people to be in it.
Books with substantial mentioning of The Right Stuff
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David Thomson Moments that made the movies London, 2014 |
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David Thomson Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films New York, 2008 |
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Danny Peary Alternate Oscars, One Critic's Defiant Choices for Best Picture, Actor, and Actress - From 1927 to the Present New York, 1993 |
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Jean-Pierre Frimbois Les 100 chefs-d'oeuvre du film historique Alleur (Belgique), 1989 |
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| Frank N. Magill (ed.) Magill's Cinema Annual 1984, A Survey of 1983 Films Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1984 pp. 342-348 
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Reviews
| Marcia Magill, The Right Stuff, in: Films in Review, vol. 34, 1983 pp. 620-621 |