La barrera del sonido

Título original: The Sound Barrier

1952
Approved
1h 58min

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Historia dramatizada sobre unos ingenieros aeroespaciales británicos que intentan resolver el problema de los vuelos supersónicos.Historia dramatizada sobre unos ingenieros aeroespaciales británicos que intentan resolver el problema de los vuelos supersónicos.Historia dramatizada sobre unos ingenieros aeroespaciales británicos que intentan resolver el problema de los vuelos supersónicos.

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6,7/10

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Ganó 1 premio Óscar
- 9 premios y 5 nominaciones en total

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Reparto principal18

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Ralph Richardson

J.R.

Ann Todd

Susan Garthwaite

Nigel Patrick

Tony

John Justin

Philip

Dinah Sheridan

Jess

Joseph Tomelty

Will

Denholm Elliott

Chris

Jack Allen

'Windy'

Ralph Michael

Fletcher

Rodney Goodall

Little Boy
(sin acreditar)

Donald Harron

ATA Officer
(sin acreditar)

Vincent Holman

Factor
(sin acreditar)

Jolyon Jackley

Susan's Baby
(sin acreditar)

Douglas Muir

Controller
(sin acreditar)

Leslie Phillips

Controller
(sin acreditar)

Anthony Snell

Peter Makepeace
(sin acreditar)

Sally-Jane Spencer

Daughter of Philip
(sin acreditar)

Robert Brooks Turner

Test Bed Operator
(sin acreditar)

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The Night My Number Came Up

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Curiosidades
The flying sequences under the direction of Anthony Squire, were based at the Vickers aerodrome at Chilbolton near Nether Wallop in Hampshire. Squire managed to secure one of the last airworthy Avro Lancaster bombers for the task. The cameramen were positioned in the front and rear turrets while Squire conducted proceedings from the central astrodome. The Lancaster was replaced by a Vickers Valetta after all, but Squire had fallen asleep due to an oxygen supply failure. Luckily as he recalled, "They all woke up on the way down, like people in a fairy wood, but I didn't bother with the Lancaster again."

Pifias
In the observatory, John tells Tony that the Andromeda galaxy is 700,000 light-years away; The best estimate since 1940 (when the known Cepheid variables were separated in two types by Baade) is 2.54 million light-years, BUT: this corresponds to 778,000 parsecs! So, it seems that parsecs and light years were somehow switched here in the movie.

Citas
Susan Garthwaite: [regarding an image of the surface of the moon, displayed via JR's telescope] What's that?
John Ridgefield: It's the moon.
Susan Garthwaite: I never knew it could look so unfriendly.
John Ridgefield: It's an unfriendly universe.
Susan Garthwaite: Do you believe that?
John Ridgefield: Unfriendly only because it's unconscious of our existence.

Créditos adicionales
In the opening credits, immediately after the human actors, are listed four British aircraft: The de Havilland COMET The Vickers-Supermarine ATTACKER The de Havilland VAMPIRE 113 The Vickers-Supermarine SWIFT Rolls-Royce 'Avon' Engine

Conexiones
Featured in Jet! When Britain Ruled the Skies: Military Marvels (2012)

Banda sonora
With Sword and Lance
(uncredited)
Music by Hermann Starke

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8/10

Excellent film, technically ludicrous

This is an outstanding film about the human cost of progress and obsession. Richardson is great as the aviation mogul willing to pay the necessary price for reaching new realms and new worlds. Historically and technically, the film is so out in left field as to be almost laughable (the plot point about control reversal is apparently the result of a writer hearing a valid aeronautical term and misunderstanding it completely) but in the end, the issues raised and the fine performances make Sound Barrier a winner. The aerial photography is outstanding, and there is one beautifully composed shot from below the nose of the Comet airliner that perfectly emphasizes the sleek lines of that most beautiful jet.