49th Parallel

• Movie

  Type

• 1941

  Year

• 2h 1m

  Runtime

• ★ 6.9

  Rating

• Adventure / Drama / Thriller

  Genre

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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Cast

Leslie Howard

Philip Armstrong Scott

Laurence Olivier

Johnnie - the Trapper

Raymond Massey

Andy Brock

Adolf Wohlbrück

Peter

Eric Portman

Lieutenant Hirth

Raymond Lovell

Lieutenant Kuhnecke

Richard George

Kommandant Bernsdorff

Niall MacGinnis

Vogel

Peter Moore

Kranz

John Chandos

Lohrmann

Finlay Currie

The Factor

Glynis Johns

Anna