The Sound Barrier (1952)
Directed by David Lean
A young RAF pilot tests his father-in-law’s prototype supersonic aircraft to the limit, at a time of intense development in the field of aviation, just as commercial jet airliners are about to enter service.
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Yet the climactic sight of them touching hands to opposite sides of a glass wall during his post-flight quarantine feels skimpy and unearned—a bland heir to Nigel Patrick and Ann Todd rubbing oxygen masks in David Lean’s Breaking the Sound Barrier.