On episode 141 of the Director Watch Podcast, co-hosts Ryan McQuade and Jay Ledbetter discuss the first film in their Powell and Pressburger series, 49th Parallel aka The Invaders (1942). Welcome ...
49th Parallel (1941) is an enthralling black-and-white British war drama film directed by the renowned filmmaker Michael Powell. Set during World War II, the movie unfolds when a U-boat becomes ...
Vaughan Williams came late to film composing. By 1940, when he started on his first such score, for 49th Parallel, Bliss, Britten and Walton had already enjoyed notable success, and in the darkening ...