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49th Parallel (1941)

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Country: GB
Technical: bw 123m
Director: Michael Powell
Cast: Eric Portman, Laurence Olivier, Anton Walbrook, Leslie Howard, Raymond Massey, Glynis Johns, Niall MacGinnis

Synopsis:

German U-boat crewmen descend on homesteaders in the Canadian wilderness, but meet their match.

Review:

Patronisingly propagandist in its portrait of the Nazis though it may be (Portman is never a human being), this noted contribution to the war effort (Vaughan Williams score and all) does contain some literate confrontations between fascist and democrat, with sensitive acting from Walbrook and Olivier. But as drama it fails to convince.

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Country: GB
Technical: bw 123m
Director: Michael Powell
Cast: Eric Portman, Laurence Olivier, Anton Walbrook, Leslie Howard, Raymond Massey, Glynis Johns, Niall MacGinnis

Synopsis:

German U-boat crewmen descend on homesteaders in the Canadian wilderness, but meet their match.

Review:

Patronisingly propagandist in its portrait of the Nazis though it may be (Portman is never a human being), this noted contribution to the war effort (Vaughan Williams score and all) does contain some literate confrontations between fascist and democrat, with sensitive acting from Walbrook and Olivier. But as drama it fails to convince.


Country: GB
Technical: bw 123m
Director: Michael Powell
Cast: Eric Portman, Laurence Olivier, Anton Walbrook, Leslie Howard, Raymond Massey, Glynis Johns, Niall MacGinnis

Synopsis:

German U-boat crewmen descend on homesteaders in the Canadian wilderness, but meet their match.

Review:

Patronisingly propagandist in its portrait of the Nazis though it may be (Portman is never a human being), this noted contribution to the war effort (Vaughan Williams score and all) does contain some literate confrontations between fascist and democrat, with sensitive acting from Walbrook and Olivier. But as drama it fails to convince.

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