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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.
(1952) performance on film then played a test pilot in the popular The Sound Barrier (1952). He was then in Meet Me Tonight (1952) and The Pickwick Papers (1952). Due mostly to The Sound Barrier, exhibitors voted Patrick the seventh most popular British film star with the public, in 1952. [5]
Derry's DH 108 historic test flight was used in dramatized form in the 1952 film The Sound Barrier directed by David Lean. John Justin plays Philip Peel, a test pilot who brings his plane through the sound barrier and out of the speed-creating dive by the untried technique of applying reverse direction to the control column.
The 6th British Academy Film Awards, retroactively known as the British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) (previously the British Film Academy) in 1953, honoured the best films of 1952. The Sound Barrier won the award for Best Film.
A list of films produced in the United Kingdom in 1952 ... The Sound Barrier: David Lean: Ralph Richardson, Ann Todd, Nigel Patrick: Drama: Stolen Face: Terence Fisher:
1952 The Sound Barrier: Yes No [12] 1954 Hobson's Choice: Yes Yes [13] 1955 Summertime: Yes Yes [14] 1957 The Bridge on the River Kwai: Yes No [15] 1962 Lawrence of Arabia: Yes No [16] 1965 Doctor Zhivago: Yes No [17] 1970 Ryan's Daughter: Yes No [18] 1979 Lost and Found: The Story of Cook's Anchor: Yes Yes [19] 1984 A Passage to India: Yes Yes ...
At a speed of about 767 miles per hour, depending on temperature and humidity, a moving object will break the sound barrier. It was not until World War II, when aircraft started to reach the ...
Justin appeared in the film The Sound Barrier (1952) and played the lead in Hot Ice (1952). After appearing in Uncle Vanya (1952) on stage, he focused on film work. He was in The Village (1953), a Swiss film; Melba (1953), a biopic; King of the Khyber Rifles (1954), a Hollywood film with Tyrone Power for 20th Century Fox ; Seagulls Over ...