49th Parallel (1942)

Directors

Michael Powell

Cast

Leslie Howard, Glynis Johns, Laurence Olivier, Richard George, Raymond Massey, Adolf Wohlbrück, Eric Portman

The story

In the Gulf of St Lawrence, German U-boat U-37 sinks a Canadian freighter and then evades the RCN and RCAF by sailing into Hudson Bay. While a raiding party of six is ashore in search of food and fuel, the U-boat is sunk by RCAF bombers. The six survivors head for the neutral United States, led by Lieutenants Hirth and Kuhnecke.

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