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49th Parallel is a 1941 British war drama film. It was the third film made by the British filmmaking team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It was released in the United States as The Invaders. [4] .
Oct 1, 2021 · At the back of my mind was playwright Rodney Ackland’s acerbic description of Pressburger’s inscrutable “flat Hungarian face”, that would make “the visages of Dr Fu-manchu, Charlie Chan and the beloved po-face of Alan Ladd look, by comparison, like mirrors of tempestuous emotion.”
Scenario: Emeric Pressburger. Dialogue: Rodney Ackland. Cinematography: Frederick Young. Editor: David Lean. Music: Ralph Vaughan Williams. Music Direction: Muir Mathieson. Associate Producers: Roland Gillett, George Brown. Production Supervisor: Harold Boxall. Assistant Director: A. Seabourne. FEATURES.
At once a compelling piece of anti-isolationist propaganda and a quick-witted wartime thriller, 49th Parallel is a classic early work from the inimitable British filmmaking team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.
The script of Emeric Pressburger [from a scenario by him and Rodney Ackland] is direct and forceful. The stars are Leslie Howard, with his comedy gifts at high tide; Laurence Olivier (a...
As the voice-over proclaims, the 49th parallel is the only undefended frontier in the world. The parallel is the goal of a small group of Nazis, survivors of a U-boat that has been spotted and sunk in Hudson Bay, deep in Canadian waters. The United States is not yet at war with Germany, and if Corporal Hirth and his six crew members can reach it, they can be repatriated to Germany with no fuss ...
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Feb 8, 2018 · He was aided by the great British playwright and screenwriter, Rodney Ackland, whose finest work was The Pink Room, or The Escapists (1945), which was a depiction of Bohemian Soho during the war and consequently went largely unstaged until it was revived (and renamed as Absolute Hell) in the 1980s.
