In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada's Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade capture, a small band of German soldiers led by commanding officer Lieutenant Hirth attempts to cross the border into the United States, which has not yet entered the war and is officially neutral.
In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada's Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade capture, a small band of German soldiers led by commanding officer Lieutenant Hirth attempts to cross the border into the United States, which has not yet entered the war and is officially neutral.
Laurence Olivier
as Johnnie - the Trapper
Leslie Howard
as Philip Armstrong Scott
Eric Portman
as Lieutenant Hirth
Raymond Lovell
as Lieutenant Kuhnecke
Niall MacGinnis
as Vogel
Peter Moore
as Kranz
John Chandos
as Lohrmann
Finlay Currie
as The Factor
Anton Walbrook
as Peter
Glynis Johns
as Anna
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Review of 49th Parallel 1941
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (The Red Shoes, Black Narcissus and The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp) bring you a wartime adventure movie from one of the most unlikely places in the world, when you think of WW2. We follow the landing party of a bombed German U-boat off the coast of Northern
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