49th Parallel (1941)
Directed by Michael Powell
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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What critics compared 49th Parallel to
David Lean (1908-1991) was considered by many the greatest British filmmaker of his time, although a better case can be made for Michael Powell , for whom he worked as an editor ("49th Parallel," 1941).
Setting such immediate comparisons to one side, it must be admitted that Michael Powell's new film appears to be part of a logical progression from the straightforward brutalities of 49th Parallel through the more sophisticated activities of the Eric Portman character in A Canterbury Tale who was given to putting glue into the hair of Kentish maidens, and through the disagreeable final scenes of The Red Shoes.