This movie goes beyond the barrier of epicness.

RIP Chuck Yeager, as you were one of the greatest test pilots of all time, a real, badass, pioneering American Hero🙏🇺🇸

This opening sends shivers up my spine everytime.

The opening of this movie alone broke the Sound Barrier, transcending mere EPICNESS as it soared towards something loftier, something far more celestial & divine. Breathtaking & Exhilarating, I've goosebumps galore👍👍

*_“...'I haven’t yet done everything, but by the time I’m finished, I won’t have missed much,'... 'If I auger in (crash) tomorrow, it won’t be with a frown on my face. I’ve had a ball.'...”_* RIP Chuck Yeager (Feb 23rd 1923 - December 7th 2020)

This is one of my favorite openings to a movie ever.

Anyone else get goosebumps from the music, narration, and nostalgia while watching this?

Probably the most exhilirating intro to a movie in history. The ambiguity and mystery of the speed demon. The narration is like an old man recalling the past in a sort of fable type way. America in the past, and the adversity the country faced in its beginning.

I love the beginning of this film. It reminds me of a past of heroes to the sound of this spectacular song.

A great book and a movie that held up very well over the years.

Beautifully done opening. Love the break out the screen and into color at the end.

I was truly fortunate to have worked on the film, THE RIGHT STUFF, in the early 1980's ... and the experiences I had, the stuff I learned as well as the professional & personal relationships I made were wondrous. There is nothing like filmmaking. For anyone wanting to work in this business of show ... DO go for it. And don't let anyone tell you, 'No -- you can't do THAT ...' Why-? Because you can. Aim for these or any of your career dreams and perhaps you too will be the one to say to thems that said, 'No' (etc) .... "But I did do it and love it." I did ... and still do. D.A.

It's odd, I haven't seen this movie in maybe ten years, and I was almost verbatim with Riddley's narrative.

"The Right Stuff." My second favorite movie of all time. Even after all these years. Robbed of Best Picture at the Oscars.

Great monologue. Also true for those who pioneered the first dive suit. Scotland, I believe. Thought the kewpies would get ahold of them underwater and drown them

They were called test pilots... And no one knew their names

October 1947... made public June 1948... First US Postal covers in January 1949 !

RIP Chuck Yeager American hero.

Great film for the time it came out... ...We defeated the Soviets in the COLD WAR...

My childhood favorite movie hell still my favorite movie they really did have the right stuff

There may be a better Narration that opens a movie. I just can't think of one.

Rest in Peace Chuck.....

"...for a career Navy pilot, i.e., one who intended to keep flying for twenty years...there was a 23 percent probability that he would die in an aircraft accident. This did not even include combat deaths..." --Tom Wolfe

The super-rich in the mid-20th Century were taxed at around 90%. Back then, it wasn't all about money. * "A controversy arose over just how much bonus Slick Goodlin should receive for assaulting the dread Mach 1 itself. Bonuses for contract test pilots were not unusual, but the figure of $150,000 was now bruited about. The Army balked, and Yeager got the job. He took it for $283 a month, or $3,396 a year..." --from the book The Right Stuff.

And no one knew their names.

Point nine eight!! Boom!!!

Wolfe embellished the "real life" facts quite a bit in the book upon which this movie was based. It's called historical fiction. Perhaps the greatest misrepresentation is of Yeager's NF-104 flight. It was an official planned and scheduled flight with the full support staff needed to get the specialized plane aloft. The altitude to which Yeager ascended had already been exceeded by other NF-104 pilots who correctly followed the flight profile. Yeager refused to follow the planned profile because he couldn't see the horizon at the correct angle of attack. That's why his flight was a failure.

***** I have a few more MGM openings queued up to upload; no Columbia in this batch though. Paramount I'm a little wary of uploading stuff from since they're pretty merciless with copyright strikes. I don't have many LDs from Live but I'll see about uploading what I do have.

fun fact the dropping footage was actually from chuck yeager's attempt

This movie won lots of awards but it flunked the reality test. First the sky is blue, then the sky has clouds, then pilot sees nothing but blue, then suddenly he is flying through clouds, all in the middle of the California desert. Then he hits the booster, the altimeter shows 80,000 feet, whoa, there are some cumulus clouds again! I know why the director edited it that way, so the audience could experience the sense of motion, but in reality it is 100% confusing.

I'm always disappointed that they said the demon lived at 750 mph instead of 666 knots.

3 thumbs down from guys with their picture on Poncho’s wall.

1:19 There was a demon...

A reminder of a time when Americans with brass balls got shit done instead of fretting over people's pronouns....