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49th Parallel - Criterion Collection

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This outstanding propaganda film, an early work from writer, producer, director team Eric Pressman and Michael Powell, manages to fuse a taught thriller with sharp wit and an anti-isolationist message into a grand display of wartime filmmaking.

This is a clever piece of propaganda filmmaking, choosing to strategically weave the allied viewpoint throughout the film, and using wit and intellect to inform on the Nazi stance, comment on the false sense of safety yielded from the isolationist high tower, and, as film and music historian Brice Eder rightfully points out in his in-depth essayist commentary, this was not the Germany that the world fought in WWI.

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