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Watch: 49th Parallel 1941 123movies, Full Movie Online – In the early years of World War II, a German U-boat (U-37) sinks Allied shipping in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and then tries to evade Canadian Military Forces seeking to destroy it by sailing up to Hudson Bay. The U-boat’s fanatical Nazi Captain sends some members of his crew to look for food and other supplies at a Hudson Bay Company outpost. No sooner than the shore party (lead by Lieutenant Hirth) reaches the shore, the U-boat is spotted and sunk by the Canadian Armed Forces, leaving the six members of the shore party stranded in Canada. The Nazi Lieutenant then starts to plan his crew’s return to the Fatherland. He needs to reach the neutral U.S., or be captured. Along the way, they meet a variety of characters, each with their own views on the war and nationalism. In this movie, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger show their ideas of why the U.S. should join the Allied fight against the Nazis..
Plot: 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. Along the way, the German soldiers encounter brave men such as a French-Canadian fur trapper, Johnnie, a leader of a Hutterite farming community, Peter, an author, Philip and a soldier, Andy Brock.
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	7.3/10 Votes: 6,894
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An Intelligent Thriller Set in Canada!
It’s a pity this movie is so little known, as it is so much better than the ridiculous portrayals of Canada in those silly Nelson Eddy movies. With Powell-Pressburger and Laurence Olivier involved, you have a right to expect quality…and you get it.

Pressburger’s script won him an Oscar, and this is the best aspect of the film. The U-boat crew on the run through Canada is taken through a variety of communities and landscapes, but setting part of the story in a Hutterite commune was a stroke of genius. These ethnic-German fundamentalists (similar to Mennonites and Amish) are hospitable towards the fugitives, but react with horror to the Lieutenant’s attempts to kindle some German patriotism and convert them to his cause. Although the Hutterite leader (nicely played by Anton Walbrook) is made to give some sententious speeches about freedom, the whole episode is very sensitively played and really makes us feel we have set foot inside a Hutterite commune.

Walbrook and Glynis Johns (as a young Hutterite girl) give the best performances, along with Raymond Massey as a Canadian AWOL soldier who discovers his conscience when it is really needed.

The Germans seem like stage-brutes, but it would be unreasonable to expect the subtlety of “Das Boot” in 1941. They are given individual characters, however, notably Niall McGinnis playing a kindly sailor with some scruples – who is executed by his comrades when he prefers to stay with the Hutterites.

Laurence Olivier plays a French Canadian Hudson’s Bay Company factor. Although his performance is rotten, the character is interesting. The script bravely has him express pro-fascist sympathies before he discovers the true nature of the intruders, and this actually represents French-Canadian opinion in 1941; the Nazi commander tries to undermine his loyalty by referring to English oppression, a useless foreign war, etc. A film made by Canadians would never have dared to touch these sensitive subjects.

The tone and pacing of the film are similar to Hitchcock. It works very nicely as popular entertainment; you have to tolerate some patriotic speeches, but there are only about four, and reasonably well-expressed. The democratic message is better conveyed by the interactions between the fugitives and the unconcerned civilians living in a democratic society.

49th Parallel
Emeric Pressburger won a best story Oscar for this wartime propaganda film directed by Michael Powell.

It is a sort of The Great Escape but made while the war will in its early stages and the US was yet to enter the war. The escapees are Nazis.

A raiding party of six Nazi soldiers who saw their U-boat being sunk plan to make it to neutral USA. They first go to a trading post, they then later travel the length and depth of Canada trying to escape the police hunting them.

To the Germans back home they are regarded as heroes evading capture but with each adventure they diminish in number.

This is an episodic road movie. It allows Powell and Pressburger to show the different people of Canada and its scenery. From Gulf of St Lawrence to the Rocky mountains to Niagara Falls. There are the Inuit people, French Canadians, to Native tribes.

Lieutenants Hirth (Eric Portman) is a Nazi fanatic, cold, calculating and murderous. He views democracy as weak and the Canadians as weak willed with their generous hospitality to strangers. It does have a resonance as these days right wing demagogues are feted as speaking common sense by parts of the media who should know better or just forgot to learn from history.

Hirth and his men come across people such as the Franco Canadian trapper Johnnie (Laurence Olivier) or writer Philip Armstrong Scott (Leslie Howard) living in a wigwam as he studies native Indians. Both of them do not keep up with the latest news or giving much thought to a war in Europe. The war comes to them and they must react as if to save their way of life.

The story sees some of the Germans like Vogel yearning for a simple life as a baker when they join a rural Hutterite community who once hailed from Germany. His Nazi comrades execute him for treachery.

Hirth seems to have little problems criss crossing a vast nation like Canada, he managed to evade capture easily on several occasions. There is little by way of a time frame. It seems a lot of Canadians seemed to have no issues being friendly with German sounding strangers and certainly seem to care little about World War 2.

One person Andy Brock (Raymond Massey) who gets friendly with Hirth turns out to be a soldier gone AWOL.

The Leslie Howard segment was the weakest, an urbane writer with valuable paintings in his wigwam and could not care less attitude. Almost as he was the Pimpernel.

This was a propaganda piece, some of it comes across as heavy handed now. This was a massive undertaking considering when this movie was made.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 3 min (123 min), 2 hr 2 min (122 min) (TV) (USA)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama, Thriller, War
Director Michael Powell
Writer Emeric Pressburger, Rodney Ackland
Actors Leslie Howard, Laurence Olivier, Raymond Massey
Country United Kingdom, Canada
Awards Won 1 Oscar. 3 wins & 2 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm