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Breaking The Sound Barrier

1952, Movie, NR, 115 mins

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Richardson, in his understated way, is powerful, if not frightening, as an airplane manufacturer obsessed with breaking the sound barrier. To that end he sends aloft his son-in-law, who is killed. But Richardson continues to send pilot after pilot to achieve what American test pilot Chuck Yeager had already done secretly. Not one of director Lean's greatest, the film's semi-documentary style is one of its greatest assets, while its rather dull stiff-upper-lip dramatic sequen... read more leave a comment
Year: 1952
Rated NR

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Cast
Ralph Richardson: John Ridgefield
Ann Todd: Susan Garthwaite
Nigel Patrick: Tony Garthwaite
John Justin: Phillip Peel
Dinah Sheridan: Jess Peel
Joseph Tomelty: Will Sparks

 

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