Reviews of 49th Parallel (1941) - powell-pressburger. org Dedicated to the work of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and all the other people, both actors and technicians who helped them make those wonderful films A lot of the documents have been sent to me or have come from other web sites The name of the web site is given where known If I have unintentionally included an image or document that is copyrighted or that I shouldn't have done
Fascinating trivia (and any goofs) connected with the film - Despite the title, no scene in the movie is set at the 49th parallel of north latitude, which forms the US Canadian border from Lake of the Woods to the Pacific coast The only border scene is at Niagara Falls, where the border is the Niagara River - All the opening 'travelogue' footage was shot by Freddie Young on a hand held camera out of the windows of various planes, trains and
Contemporary Review - 49th Parallel The chase which follows the bombing of the u-boat in the Hudson ("Let poppa try !" sings out the cheerful young pilot of the following aeroplane as he dives into the submarine's gunfire) is divided into episodes Each episode takes us among different people and in each a different actor of proved talent appears to give the chase fresh impetus The capture by the Germans of a trapper's post
Chicago Reader Review Retitled The Invaders for American release, this 1941 film is a typically perverse and entertaining propaganda piece by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp) The plot structure--a German U-boat lands in Canada, and the crew must try to make it across the U S border before they're captured--forces the audience to identify with the enemy's point of view
The Film Answers Back - Powell Pressburger With grateful thanks to Kaye Clark (Kirkbean Heritage Society), Morag Williams (Dumfries and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society), Gabriel Harrington and Elizabeth Robson Taylor 49th Parallel (1941) was the first of Powell and Pressburger's war-time films to be criticised for its portrayal of both Nazis and Allies alike by EW MM Robson: who were the Robsons, what motivated this
TV Guide review - powell-pressburger. org 49th Parallel (1941) akas The Invaders Made in Montreal and in Denham, England, with second units providing awesome footage of the vast Canadian landscape, this is one of the few episodic films to prove highly effective This tense WW II drama unfolds when the U-37, a German submarine, surfaces in the Gulf of St Lawrence One of its officers, Portman, leads six crew members ashore to search
49th Parallel - Radio Times film guide Director - Michael Powell Starring - Eric Portman Laurence Olivier Running Time - 116 mins Country of Origin - UK Sponsored by the Ministry of Information and 18 months in the making, this is one of the best propaganda films produced in Britain during the Second World War With a stellar cast and a rousing score by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's gripping
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Powell Pressburger Ralph Vaughan Williams was born in 1872 at Down Ampney in South Gloucestershire When considering his illustrious career as a film composer, it is important to remember two facts- firstly that RVW was older than cinema itself, and secondly that he had, by the outbreak of WW2, written masterpieces in almost every musical category He had, importantly, supplied incidental music for theatre for
American release - 49th Parallel The first American release of 49th Parallel (1941) had quite a few cuts and changes made to satisfy various special interest groups and sensibilities in the then still neutral United States There were quite a few pro-German and isolationist groups in America when it was first released there in March 1942 I had heard of some of these cuts before but I didn't realise quite how many of them
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