The Sound Barrier (1952)

Directed by

David Lean

Genre

drama film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 58m

Rated

U

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 59 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A fictional story about aircraft designers and test pilots trying to fly faster than sound. The film follows their struggles and successes with the new technology.

focusedearneststirringretromethodicaltenseinspiring

What happens

The Sound Barrier is a 1952 British aviation drama film directed by David Lean. It is a fictional story about attempts by aircraft designers and test pilots to break the sound barrier. It was David Lean's third and final film with his wife Ann Todd but it was his first for Alexander Korda's London Films, following the break-up of Cineguild. The Sound Barrier stars Ralph Richardson, Ann Todd, John Justin and Nigel Patrick. It was known in the United States as Breaking Through the Sound Barrier and Breaking the Sound Barrier. The Sound Barrier was a box-office success on first release but it has become one of the least-known of Lean's films. Following on In Which We Serve (1942), the film is another of Lean's ventures into a genre of film making where impressions of documentary film are created. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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