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1941 2h 3m

49th Parallel

Directed by Michael Powell

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.

1 reviews
pieterjaspers
LT

Wartime propaganda, but also a great movie

by pieterjaspers about 11 years ago

8.0/10

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...