The Sound Barrier (1952)
Country: GB
Technical: bw 118m
Director: David Lean
Cast: Ralph Richardson, Nigel Patrick, Ann Todd
Synopsis:
The story of a British aeronautical engineer's work on supersonic jet engines, and his son-in-law's piloting of them.
Review:
Exciting in the air, absorbing on the ground, Lean's film handles its subject as dramatized documentary, but it is also a study of one man's recklessness with other people's lives in the pursuit of his obsession. This aspect is rather fudged in the end, to provide an upbeat conclusion.
Country: GB
Technical: bw 118m
Director: David Lean
Cast: Ralph Richardson, Nigel Patrick, Ann Todd
Synopsis:
The story of a British aeronautical engineer's work on supersonic jet engines, and his son-in-law's piloting of them.
Review:
Exciting in the air, absorbing on the ground, Lean's film handles its subject as dramatized documentary, but it is also a study of one man's recklessness with other people's lives in the pursuit of his obsession. This aspect is rather fudged in the end, to provide an upbeat conclusion.
Country: GB
Technical: bw 118m
Director: David Lean
Cast: Ralph Richardson, Nigel Patrick, Ann Todd
Synopsis:
The story of a British aeronautical engineer's work on supersonic jet engines, and his son-in-law's piloting of them.
Review:
Exciting in the air, absorbing on the ground, Lean's film handles its subject as dramatized documentary, but it is also a study of one man's recklessness with other people's lives in the pursuit of his obsession. This aspect is rather fudged in the end, to provide an upbeat conclusion.