49th Parallel (1941)
"THE MIGHTEST MANHUNT THAT EVER SWEPT THE SCREEN!"
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👍 82%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 87%
(RT: 87%) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Leslie Howard as Philip Armstrong Scott
Anton Walbrook as Peter
Eric Portman as Lieutenant Hirth
Raymond Lovell as Lieutenant Kuhnecke
Richard George as Kommandant Bernsdorff
Niall MacGinnis as Vogel
Is 49th Parallel good?
Most people think so. 82% audience score, estimated from 131 TMDB ratings. Critics agree, scoring it 87%.
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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. Wikipedia ↗
