
Breaking the Sound Barrier
Broadcast: October 12, 1953
Starring:
Irving Cummings,
Dorothy McGuire,
Lamont Johnson,
Herb Butterfield,
Ellen Morgan,
Robert Newton,
Michael Pate,
Ken Carpenter,
Rudy Schrager,
Earl Ebi,
Sanford Barnett,
Charlie Forsyth,
Alastair Duncan,
Terence Rattigan
Added: Oct 18 2014
It came as no surprise when the movie 'Breaking the Sound Barrier' won several academy awards in 1953, and this particular Lux radio show is a terrific adaptation of the film - a story with all of the ingredients for a blockbuster - full of excitement, daring, romance and heartbreak. Britain is portrayed at its stiff upper lip best, with the tale of a man's overpowering obsession with speed, and a wealthy oil magnate's ambition to succeed in building the first jet capable of breaking the sound barrier.