49th Parallel (film)

49th Parallel
Original Belgian film poster
Directed byMichael Powell
Written byOriginal Story and Screenplay by Emeric Pressburger
Scenario by Rodney Ackland and Emeric Pressburger
Produced byMichael Powell
John Sutro (Managing director of An Ortus Film Production)
Starring
CinematographyFrederick Young, F.R.P.S.
Edited byDavid Lean
Music byRalph Vaughan Williams
Musical Director Muir Mathieson
with the London Symphony Orchestra
Production
company
Ortus Films
Distributed byGeneral Film Distributors Ltd.
Release dates
  • 8 October 1941 (1941-10-08) (London, premiere)
  • 24 November 1941 (1941-11-24) (United Kingdom)
  • 5 March 1942 (1942-03-05) (New York)
Running time
123 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
Languages
  • English
  • French
  • German
Budget£132,000[1]
Box office£250,000 (in Britain)[2]
$5 million (US/Canada)[3]

49th Parallel is a 1941 British war drama film, the third made by the team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It was released in the United States as The Invaders.[4]

  1. ^ Macdonald, Kevin (1994). Emeric Pressburger: The Life and Death of a Screenwriter. Faber and Faber. p. 176. ISBN 978-0-571-16853-8.
  2. ^ MacNab 1994, p. 91.
  3. ^ Hopper, Hedda (4 April 1942). "Screen: Hedda Hopper's Hollywood". Los Angeles Times. p. 9.
  4. ^ Davenport 2004, p. 138.