49th Parallel(1941)

🎬123 min
📅1941-11-24
🎭War, Thriller
7.0/10

Overview

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.

Production

Ortus Films

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Cast

Leslie Howard
as Philip Armstrong Scott
Laurence Olivier
as Johnnie, the Trapper
Raymond Massey
as Andy Brock
Anton Walbrook
as Peter
Eric Portman
as Lieutenant Hirth
Raymond Lovell
as Lieutenant Kuhnecke
Richard George
as Kommandant Bernsdorff
Niall MacGinnis
as Vogel
Peter Moore
as Kranz
John Chandos
as Lohrmann