The Sound Barrier

  • Drama
  • Romance
  • War
7/22/1952
117

Storyline

A young RAF pilot tests his father-in-law’s prototype supersonic aircraft to the limit, at a time of intense development in the field of aviation, just as commercial jet airliners are about to enter service.

Director:
Revenue:
$235,000
Budget:
$275,000

Cast

Reviews

  • Geronimo1967

    JR (Sir Ralph Richardson) is a magnate determined to develop an aircraft that can break the speed of sound. This is no mean feat, and with the man becoming all but obsessed with this breakthrough, he engages Tony (Nigel Patrick) who just happens to be married to his daughter Susan (Ann Todd) to follow in the footsteps of his predecessor, quite literally, Chris (Denholm Elliott). What this film does manage is to generate quite a sense of the perilous jeopardy facing these pilots as they pushed their embryonic technology harder and harder, almost feeling their way forward. That is really well illustrated by some archive aerial photography of just about everything from a bi-plane to more advanced jet engines aircraft, and Malcolm Armold delive...

    June 19, 2025

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