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49th Parallel (1941)
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A WW2 U-boat crew is stranded in northern Canada. To avoid internment, they must make their way to the border and get into the still-neutral USA. Director:Michael PowellWriters:Emeric Pressburger (original story and screenplay), Rodney Ackland (scenario), and 1 more credit » |
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Richard George | ... |
Kommandant Bernsdorff
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Eric Portman | ... |
Lieutenant Hirth
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Raymond Lovell | ... |
Lieutenant Kuhnecke
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Niall MacGinnis | ... |
Vogel
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Peter Moore | ... |
Kranz
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John Chandos | ... |
Lohrmann
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Basil Appleby | ... |
Jahner
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Johnnie - the Trapper
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Finlay Currie | ... |
The Factor
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Ley On | ... |
Nick - the Eskimo
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Anton Walbrook | ... |
Peter
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Anna
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Charles Victor | ... |
Andreas
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Frederick Piper | ... |
David
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Philip Armstrong Scott
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Storyline
In the early years of World War II, a German U-boat (U-37) sinks Allied shipping in St. Lawrence Bay and then tries to evade Canadian Military Forces seeking to destroy it by sailing up to Hudson Bay. The U-boat's Fanatical Nazi captain sends some members of his crew to look for food and other supplies at a Hudson Bay Company outpost. No sooner than the shore party (lead by Lieutenant Hirth) reaches the shore, the U-boat is spotted and sunk by the Canadian Armed Forces leaving the six members of the shore party stranded in Canada. The Nazi Lieutenant then starts to plan his crews' return to the Fatherland. He needs to reach the neutral United States or be captured. Along the way they meet a variety of characters each with their own views on the war and nationalism. In this film Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger show their ideas of why the United States should join the Allied fight against the Nazis. Written by Steve Crook <steve@brainstorm.co.uk>
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49ème parallèle See more »Box Office
Budget:
£132,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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| USA: | USA: (TV version: M-G-M print)Sound Mix:
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Prologue: I see a long, straight line athwart a continent. No chain of forts, or deep flowing river, or mountain range, but a line drawn by men upon a map, nearly a century ago, accepted with a handshake, and kept ever since. A boundary which divides two nations, yet marks their friendly meeting ground. The 49th parallel: the only undefended frontier in the world.
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is a 'starring' credit for 'The music of Ralph Vaughan Williams'. See more »
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Tony Thomas in his book 'The Great Adventure Films' states that this film " . . . was begun in April of 1940 and took eighteen months to complete. More than two-thirds of it was shot in Canada and required a great deal of travel. The Canadian government assisted the [film] company by giving facilities and loaning service-men and policeman whenever necessary, but the Royal Canadian Navy declined to allow the use of a submarine in the role of the U-37 since the few they had were actively engaged in real warfare. The [film] company solved their problem by commissioning a shipyard in Halifax, Nova Scotia, to build them a replica of a German U-Boat." See more »Goofs
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The woman heard over the Factor's radio (the wife of the man he plays chess with via radio) speaks with a thick Brooklyn accent ("sub*moige*"), when in fact she lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Prologue: I see a long, straight line athwart a continent. No chain of forts, or deep flowing river, or mountain range, but a line drawn by men upon a map, nearly a century ago, accepted with a handshake, and kept ever since. A boundary which divides two nations, yet marks their friendly meeting ground. The 49th parallel: the only undefended frontier in the world.
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Crazy Credits
Along with the credits for the actors at the beginning of the film, thereis a 'starring' credit for 'The music of Ralph Vaughan Williams'. See more »
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