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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. The Sound Barrier stars Ralph Richardson, Ann Todd, John Justin and Nigel…
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After the premiere *U-571* was criticised for pandering to American chauvinism and distorting historical truth by portraying British achievement as American. During the debates, some American participants noted that the British had done the same thing by claiming American achievement as their own in *The Sound Barrier*, the 1952 film directed by David Lean. The plot begins in England during the Second World War when…More
