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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT EAN: 9780792859550 Format: Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 0792859553 Item Dimensions: Label: MGM (Video & DVD) Languages: Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD) MPN: 1005992 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD) Region Code: 1 Release Date: February 03, 2004 Running Time: 107 minutes Studio: MGM (Video & DVD) Theatrical Release Date: December 22, 1961 Editorial Review: Product Description: Before Top Gun Apollo 13 or The Right Stuff this breathtaking jet-fueled journey of high-altitude filmmaking blasted audiences from zero-G to 4000 miles per hour with its thrilling tale of America's victory in the space race. Starring David McLean Charles Bronson and Mary Tyler Moore X-15 sets the sky as the limit for excitement!The courageous pilots of the Air Force's X-15 program are determined to take an experimental rocket 100 miles above the earth at four times the speed of sound! At stake is American air supremacy and proof that space travel is possible. But also at stake are their lives and the lives of the terrified wives they've left behind!Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: PR UPC: 027616902214 Manufacturer No: 1005992 Amazon.com: Frank Sinatra was among the producers for X-15, an interesting space-race film that marked the feature debut of Richard Donner (the Lethal Weapon series, Timeline) and provided an early lead role for Charles Bronson, who leads a solid cast in this occasionally tense, hardware-driven drama. Bronson, David McLean, and Ralph Taeger are test pilots for the X-15 research vehicle, which brought man to the brink of outer space for the first time. The film divides its running time between scenes of the crew testing the rocket and domestic drama involving their wives and girlfriends (played by Mary Tyler Moore, Patricia Owens, and Lizabeth Hush). James Stewart's narration offers an all-American layer to the script, written by James Ward Bellah (whose stories were adapted by John Ford for She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and Sergeant Rutledge, among others) and producer Tony Lazzarino. Eagle-eyed fans might notice future California congressman Robert Dornan among the ground crew. MGM's widescreen DVD offers no extras. --Paul Gaita Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Fast craft - slow acting !X-15 is very much a creature of its time. With narration by James Stewart and the semi-documentary approach it is embedded in the cold war era. The stock footage of the X-15 flights is stunning and the speed of the approach and landings remind you of how this craft paved the way for the space shuttle. If only the acting could have had a fraction of the speed of the X-15. Charles Bronson plods through the film - one can also imagine him breathing a sign ... Read More Rating:  - Slow suicide....What a piece of garbage...Amazon should immediately refund everyone's money and then bring legal action againest whomever is resposible for this abomination of a DVD. Did no one attempt to watch this prior to it's release? Probably did and were promptly bored to death....Lynn Stubblefield, Nashville, TN...btw, one star because there is no way to leave them all blank... Rating:  - noneI really enjoyed this movie. It was very entertaining. The actores were great. Having first hand knowlege of the X-15 project, Ihought it was fairly accuarte. Rating: - The lazy way to put out an old film"dhoggan" is right on the money. This is the lazy way to release an old film. Nothing could have been easier than to have re-worked this film in a full-frame version with the NASA footage sections returned to their original dimensions, which are naturally full-frame. You'd think it would have been a breeze with the available technology and software. Instead of being able to advertise a newly restored version that's better than the original theatrical release ever was, they end up with a DVD that's ... Read More Rating: - MGM DVD doesn't help this turkey either...Dick Donner's directorial debut is about as far from auspicious as you want to get and is no way evocative of the successes he would enjoy in later years with the likes of Superman and the Lethal Weapon series. This maudlin, mysoginist, cliche-ridden old-school melodrama is further marred by aspect ratio problems that have been explained sufficiently by other reviewers, so I won't get into that here--but what adds insult to injury is MGM DVD's hack mastering job. The studio didn't even bother to optimize ... Read More |
