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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.”
Feb 8, 2018 · He was aided by the great British playwright and screenwriter, Rodney Ackland, whose finest work was The Pink Room, or The Escapists (1945), which was a depiction of Bohemian Soho during the war and consequently went largely unstaged until it was revived (and renamed as Absolute Hell) in the 1980s. Although the extravagant and colorful Ackland ...
The script of Emeric Pressburger [from a scenario by him and Rodney Ackland] is direct and forceful. The stars are Leslie Howard, with his comedy gifts at high tide; Laurence Olivier (a...
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.
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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.
