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Director:
Writers:
Walter Meade (screenplay) &
Ivor Montagu (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
20 April 1949 (USA) more
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Plot:
The true story of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his ill-fated expedition to try to be the first man to discover the South Pole... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 1 nomination more
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 (From Kasterborous. 16 October 2009, 12:28 AM, PDT)

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Beautiful movie more (25 total)
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated PG for mild thematic elements and brief language.
Runtime:
111 min
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Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)
Certification:
USA:PG | Canada:PG (Ontario) | UK:U (video rating) | Finland:S | Sweden:Btl | UK:U (original rating)
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Trivia:
The hut where Scott and his party stay throughout the winter months before their final push to the South Pole still exists today and is a tourist attraction for those few who travel down to that part of the world. The intensely cold, dry air has preserved everything almost exactly as it was a century ago. more
Quotes:
Lt. H.R. Bowers R.I.M.: The sleeping bag, a poem. On the outside grows the furside; on the inside grows the skinside. So the furside is the outside, and the skinside is the inside. One side likes the skinside inside, and the furside on the outside. Others like the skinside outside... more
Movie Connections:
Featured in Antarctica (1991) more

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10 out of 14 people found the following comment useful.
Beautiful movie, 4 April 2005
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Author: ubercommando from London

OK, we've heard a lot about the "real" history and the debate over whether Scott was a hero or a complete imbecile. Whatever the truth is and whatever revisionist or hagiography history is being peddled, "Scott Of The Antarctic" is a beautifully made film: One of the best looking early colour films which evokes a bye-gone era and is strangely compelling and haunting at the same time. The music by Vaughn-Williams, the greatest British classical composer of his time, is powerful and, again, haunting. In some scenes, they've recreated exactly some of the photos taken during the Scott expedition. The casting is spot on; look at the original photos and Millsy is uncannily like Scott, Kenneth More is Teddy Evans, Reginald Beckwith and James Robertson Justice do their real counterparts well and John Gregson, in one of his first film roles, captures Tom Crean perfectly (compare his performance with Paul McGann's Crean in "Shackleton", which was pretty good). Many film critics feel that "Scott of the Antarctic" was somewhat robbed at the 1949 Oscars.

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