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Film Description
Adaptation of the Terence Rattigan play. Ralph Richardson stars as an aircraft manufacturer whose all-consuming passion with making the ultimate supersonic leads him into near madness and brings his family suffering. Features exhilarating aerial footage and a score by Malcolm Arnold.
There are only two feature films I consider to be of the highest calibre regarding film plays about aviation...and they are "The Sound Barrier"...also known in the Un... more >
There are only two feature films I consider to be of the highest calibre regarding film plays about aviation...and they are "The Sound Barrier"...also known in the United States as "Breaking the Sound Barrier"...and, "Kato Hayabusa Sentotai" (Kato's Peregrine Falcon Squadron). "Kato Hayabusa Sentotai" is a 1944 Japanese release regarding a true story of an Imperial Japanese Army Air Corps. officer and his men. The many flight scenes, with one or two exceptions, are real and carried out by the Imperial Army Air Corps. using actual aircraft of the era. (Japanese language) "The Sound Barrier", released in 1954 still has me leaning forward in my seat as a result of the actual aircraft used, the marvelous acting, the brilliant directing...and most of all the un-paralleled flight scenes both actual and in studio. Only the British can pull off the ultimate aviation thematic production. < less
