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X-15

"The Rocket Ship That Challenged Outer Space!"

1961

1h 47m

5.8(17 votes)

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X-15 is a 1961 movie that tells a fictionalized account of the X-15 research rocket plane, the men who flew it and the women who loved them.

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10 featured cast members

Starring

David McLean

Matt Powell

Charles Bronson

Lt. Col. Lee Brandon

Mary Tyler Moore

Pamela Stewart

Stanley Livingston

Mike Brandon

Ralph Taeger

Maj. Ernest Wilde

Brad Dexter

Maj. Anthony Rinaldi

Kenneth Tobey

Col. Craig Brewster

James Gregory

Tom Deparma

Patricia Owens

Margaret Brandon

James Stewart

Himself / Narrator (voice)

Creative team

Directed by: Richard Donner
Written by: James Warner Bellah
Tony Lazzarino
Produced by: Tony Lazzarino
Henry W. Sanicola

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