49th Parallel (1941)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.5/10   

Director:

Michael Powell

Escritores:

Emeric Pressburger (story)
Rodney Ackland (scenario) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

15 abril 1942 (USA)

Género:

Drama | Guerra | Suspenso

Plot:

A WW2 U-boat crew is stranded in northern Canada. To avoid internment, they must make their way to the border and get into the still-neutral USA.

Plot Keywords:

U Boat | Nazi | Fight | Hutterite | Winnipeg

Premios:

Won Oscar. Another 2 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Well Crafted WWII Drama

Reparto

Richard George	...	Kommandant Bernsdorff
Eric Portman	...	Lieutenant Hirth
Raymond Lovell	...	Lieutenant Kuhnecke
Niall MacGinnis	...	Vogel
Peter Moore	...	Kranz
John Chandos	...	Lohrmann
Basil Appleby	...	Jahner
Laurence Olivier	...	Johnnie - the Trapper
Finlay Currie	...	The Factor
Ley On	...	Nick - the Eskimo
Anton Walbrook	...	Peter
Glynis Johns	...	Anna
Charles Victor	...	Andreas
Frederick Piper	...	David
Leslie Howard	...	Philip Armstrong Scott

También conocida como:

Forty-Ninth Parallel (UK) (alternative spelling)
The Invaders (USA)
Cinco hombres (Chile) [es]
Los invasores (Spain) [es]

Duración:

123 min | USA:104 min | USA:122 min (TV version: M-G-M print)

País:

UK

Idioma:

Inglés | Francés | Alemán

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Clasificación:

UK:U | Canada:PG (Ontario) | USA:TV-14 (TV rating) | Norway:12 (re-rating) (1962) | Norway:16 (1946) | Australia:PG | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15

Locaciones de Filmación:

Associated Sound News Studios, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Compañía:

Ortus Films

Trivialidades:

Emeric Pressburger said, "Goebbels [Josef Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister] considered himself a master of propaganda but I'd thought I'd show him a thing or two". Ironically, Pressburger's status in Britain at the time was as an enemy alien, so when he returned from filming in Canada he found himself imprisoned and threatened with deportation. Thanks to the intervention of Michael Powell and the Ministry of Information, this did not happen.

Errores:

Continuidad: When Philip Armstrong Scott and his men chase the Nazi into the cave it is only just a short while past sunset (about 10pm). But when they drag him out of the cave it is already sunrise.

Citas:

[first lines]
Prologue: I see a long, straight line athwart a continent. No chain of forts, or deep flowing river, or mountain range, but a line drawn by men upon a map, nearly a century ago, accepted with a handshake, and kept ever since. A boundary which divides two nations, yet marks their friendly meeting ground. The 49th parallel: the only undefended frontier in the world.

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en The Ultimate Film (2004) (TV)

Banda de Sonido:

Alouette

Well Crafted WWII Drama

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressberger's artistic collaboration at the start of WWII benefits from a powerhouse cast.

Clearly propaganda, the cast and crew apparently came from all parts of the world to lend their talents for a "mutual cause." With strains of Ralph Vaughn Williams's score woven into the cinematic fabric, Pressberger's elaborate story is expansive and involved.

The Oscar nominated film is worth watching, and it's interesting to see Raymond Massey's speech as a G.I. so very Yank-oriented, without a trace of the mannered style he later acquired. Leslie Howard is well cast as a poetic, philosophical dreamer. However, it's Anton Walbrook who really surprises with an uncharacteristic subtle naturalistic style.

This is apparently the project Elizabeth Bergner used to defect from Germany to the U.S., leaving the film for Hollywood (and Glynis Johns to take over the role). The actors playing Nazis are all quite strong.