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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] .
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.
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.”
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.
- Philip Armstrong Scott
Aug 5, 2019 · A strikingly atypical propaganda film by the team of Michael Powell (“A Canterbury Tale”/”The Red Shoes”) and Emeric Pressburger, aided by writer Rodney Ackland. It was arranged by Britain’s Ministry of Information in the belief it could convince America to enter WW11 and improve Canadian support for the war.
Feb 17, 2024 · Based on: a scenario by Rodney Ackland and Emeric Pressburger. Cinematographer: Frederick Young. Editor: David Lean. Cast: Leslie Howard, Laurence Olivier, Anton Walbrook. Print Source: British Film Institute, London. Rights: Park Circus. Year: 1941. Runtime: 123 minutes. Country: United Kingdom. Language: English. Colour: Black & White.
Feb 19, 2007 · The War Effort. By Charles Barr. Feb 19, 2007. F rom Contraband in 1940 to A Matter of Life and Death in 1946, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger applied themselves single-mindedly to making films—eight of them in all—in direct and indirect support of the British war effort and its aftermath.
