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49th Parallel (1941)

Name: 49th Parallel
Director: Michael Powell
Genre: drama film, propaganda film
Rating: 7.3

49th Parallel is a 1941 British epic war drama film, the third made by the team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It stars Leslie Howard, Laurence Olivier, Anton Walbrook, Raymond Massey, Glynis Johns and Eric Portman. The plot involves a German U-boat crew that is stranded in Canada, and attempts to cross into the then-neutral United States.

Directed by Michael Powell · Cut by David Lean · Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams

Behind the scenes

Criterion Creeps Ep. 322: 49th Parallel — Criterion Creeps · 55 min

Elsewhere

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