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Actor: Brad Dexter, Charles Bronson, David McLean, Kenneth Tobey, Ralph TaegerBrand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 107 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-02-03
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD Reviews of X-15
DVD Review: X-15 (1961) A bad film about one of the greatest accomplishments of the U.S. Air Force
Summary: 2 Stars
I had to go it alone in 1961 to see the grand opening of the X-15 story at the old ASCOT Theater in the Bronx. All of my friends, amateur rocket buddies and charter members of the New York Rocket Society would not go to see this then promising film and somehow had the intelligence to tell me not to waste my time. They were all eggheads and must have read some bad reviews in the NY Times.
It was indeed a very bad movie about a great aircraft. Nevertheless, I enjoyed the film even though the discussed wide screen problems hampered my viewing. It was the first full length movie to be released about the beginnings of the real space program and I was thrilled to see it. With the possible exception of ON THE THRESHOLD OF SPACE, an early film which documented the U.S. Air Force MAN-HIGH balloon project, the X-15 story is almost in a class by itself. It was a film about a rocket research project, and the featured characters were almost incidental.
In order to appreciate my excitement about seeing this film you must understand that the X-15 had been spoken about since about 1957 when I was 11 years old. My first glimpse of the X-15 was in released Air Force photos that showed it covered by a large canvas which cloaked the exact shape of the rocket. This only permitted a tantalizing first impression of the shape of the X-15 and really helped capture my imagination. I was a fan of this vehicle from that day forward, if such a thing can be said.
The film story was about a rocket powered extreme altitude aircraft, and nothing in the movie except the actual Air Force footage of the X-15 was worth looking at. The X-15 went on to achieve a maximum altitude record of 67 miles and a velocity record of 6.7 times the speed of sound. Although function determined much of its form, the X-15 was also one of the most beautiful rocketplanes ever designed, and resembles the SR-71 in profile.
The X-15 demonstrated the use of reaction attitude control jets, the application of Inconel X high temperature alloy, early Air Force pressure suit technology, a powerful and fully throttleable rocket engine, and did much of the pioneering research that made the space shuttle possible in later years. Although it is seldom mentioned, the X-15 was one of the most successful research programs of the U.S. Air Force and NASA.
According to what I have read it only failed to better its performance to Mach 8 as was hoped for and attempted. However, it did outperform most of its original specifications. It also gave many of us something important to be proud of during the early days when America appeared to be falling behind the Russians in space flight capability.
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Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 02/03/2004 Run time: 110 minutes Rating: RBestsellers in DVD
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