The right stuff

Resource Information

The work The right stuff represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Portland Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

The right stuff

Statement of responsibility

the Ladd Company ; directed by Philip Kaufman ; written for the screen by Philip Kaufman ; produced by Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff

Creator

• Right stuff (Motion picture)

Contributor

• Hershey, Barbara, 1948-
• Kaufman, Philip, 1936-
• Harris, Ed, 1950-
• Goldblum, Jeff, 1952-
• Moffat, Donald, 1930-2018
• Glenn, Scott, 1942-
• Frank, Charles
• Quaid, Dennis
• Reed, Pamela
• Dano, Royal, 1922-1994
• Shearer, Harry, 1943-
• Clennon, David
• Shepard, Sam, 1943-2017
• Chartoff, Robert
• Stanley, Kim
• Cartwright, Veronica
• Ward, Fred, 1942-
• Warner Home Video (Firm)
• Wilson, Scott, 1942-2018
• Ladd Company
• Winkler, Irwin
• Helm, Levon
• Wolfe, Tom

Actor

• Moffat, Donald, 1930-2018
• Glenn, Scott, 1942-
• Goldblum, Jeff, 1952-
• Harris, Ed, 1950-
• Hershey, Barbara, 1948-
• Helm, Levon
• Wilson, Scott, 1942-2018
• Ward, Fred, 1942-
• Stanley, Kim
• Cartwright, Veronica
• Shepard, Sam, 1943-2017
• Shearer, Harry, 1943-
• Clennon, David
• Dano, Royal, 1922-1994
• Reed, Pamela
• Frank, Charles
• Quaid, Dennis

Director

• Kaufman, Philip, 1936-

Producer

• Winkler, Irwin
• Chartoff, Robert

Production company

• Ladd Company

Publisher

• Warner Home Video (Firm)

Screenwriter

• Kaufman, Philip, 1936-

Subject

• United States
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Astronautas -- Drama
• Astronautics
• Astronautics -- United States -- Drama
• Astronauts
• Astronauts -- United States -- Drama
• DVD-Video discs
• Drama
• Largometrajes
• Project Mercury (U.S.) -- Drama
• Film adaptations
• Historical films
• Historical films
• Project Mercury (U.S.)
• Feature films
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Fiction films
• Film adaptations

Genre

• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• DVD-Video discs
• Drama
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Film adaptations
• Historical films
• Largometrajes

Language

• eng
• fre
• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng
• eng

Summary

The true story of Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra, Gordon Cooper, and Deke Slayton -- the seven men chosen for the Mercury Project manned space flight program in the U.S

Awards note

Academy Awards, 1984: Best Music, Original Score (Bill Conti); Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing (Jay Boekelheide); Best Film Editing (Glenn Farr, Lisa Fruchtman, Stephen A. Rotter, Douglas Stewart, Tom Rolf); Best Sound (Mark Berger, Thomas Scott, Randy Thom, David MacMillan)

Cataloging source

HLS

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Caleb Deschanel; music, Bill Conti

Intended audience

Rated PG

Language note

In English or dubbed French with optional subtitles in English, French and Spanish; closed-captioned in English

PerformerNote

Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Barbara Hershey, Dennis Quaid, Pamela Reed, Sam Shepard, Kim Stanley, Fred Ward, Veronica Cartwright, David Clennon, Scott Wilson, Donald Moffat, Levon Helm, Jeff Goldblum, Harry Shearer, Charles Frank, Royal Dano

Runtime

193

Technique

live action