The Sound Barrier
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DVD Details
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 28, 2020
- Originally Released: 1952
- Label: KL Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Ralph Richardson, Ann Todd, Nigel Patrick & John Justin | |
Performer: | Dinah Sheridan, Joseph Tomelty, Denholm Elliott & Jack Allen | |
Directed by | David Lean | |
Edited by | Geoffrey Foot | |
Screenplay by | Terence Rattigan | |
Composition by | Malcolm Arnold | |
Produced by | David Lean | |
Director of Photography: | Jack Hildyard |
Entertainment Reviews:
Two of Britain's best moviemakers, director David Lean and writer Terence Rattigan, join forces in what is probably the finest aviation film ever made.
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Maclean's Magazine
Rating: 3/4 --
Richardson, in his understated way, is powerful, if not frightening, as an airplane manufacturer obsessed with breaking the sound barrier.
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TV Guide
Technically, artistically and emotionally, this is a topflight British offering.
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Variety
Public excitement over jet travel helped make David Lean's 1952 British feature a big hit, though its science doesn't wash and its majestic aerial sequences are uneasily wedded to a starchy familial drama.
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Chicago Reader
The aerodynamic issues in the movie may now be antiquated, but the excitement and beauty of early jet aviation are still irresistible.
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New Yorker
A great British film that celebrates technological achievement while also questioning the virtues of such achievement.
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Film4
Rating: A- --
Ralph Richardson gives a brilliant performance in this British fact-based drama directed by David Lean.
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Product Description:
BREAKING THE SOUND BARRIER juxtaposes the history of jet aviation with an intensely personal fictional story. Ralph Richardson plays a wealthy aircraft manufacturer, stubbornly determined to develop a jet that will travel faster than the speed of sound. Richardson's seemingly cavalier attitude toward the pilots who have died on behalf of his dream--including his own son (Denholm Elliott)--has turned his daughter (Ann Todd) against him. When the daughter's fighter-pilot husband (Nigel Patrick) agrees to test Richardson's jet, he too loses his life. The daughter walks out of her father's life and sets up residence with the wife (Dinah Sheridan) of another pilot (John Junkin). Richardson approaches this pilot as well with his challenge--and this time the "sound barrier" is successfully broken without anyone being killed. Reconciled to the fact that her father's apparent coldbloodedness was in the interest of scientific progress, the daughter and her newborn child are reconciled with Richardson. The first independent project of director David Lean, BREAKING THE SOUND BARRIER was a huge success, persuasively scripted by Terence Rattigan and beautifully photographed by aerial specialist Jack Hildyard. The film's original British title was simply THE SOUND BARRIER, but the American distributor apparently didn't want filmgoers to think the movie was about the record industry.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 56,924
- UPC: 738329246419
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