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Title: 49th Parallel (The Criterion Collection)
Format: DVD
Condition: New
Number Of Discs: 2
Release Date: 19/02/2007
Genre: Action & Adventure
Actors: Leslie Howard, Laurence Olivier, Richard George, Eric Portman, Raymond Lovell
Director: Michael Powell
Audio Language: Unqualified (DTS ES 6.1), English
Runtime: 2 hours and 3 minutes
Region Code: DVD: 1 (US, Canada...)
Studio: Criterion Collection
Certificate: Unrated
Description: PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
A U-boat Nazi and his comrades raid a Canadian outpost, hijack a seaplane and kill to reach the United States.

SET CONTAINS:
Criterion's print of this 1941 film is fabulous, however, a few hairs remain, which is odd with the high bar the Criterion Collection sets. The best of the second-disc special features is a 1981 BBC show on directors Powell and Pressburger. We follow Powell around Hollywood with his new job, Senior Director in Resident for Zoetrope Studios, Francis Ford Coppola's all-too-brief attempt to create an independent film studio. We visit the ill-fated set of One from the Heart and also Martin Scorsese (the contemporary Powell advocate) on the other side of town shooting The King of Comedy. There's an hour of Powell's audio dictations for only the serious buff and a rare short by the two filmmakers, The Volunteer. Ralph Richardson plays himself in this little ditty about how a clumsy dresser becomes a sharp volunteer for Britain's war effort. --Doug Thomas

DVDs ARE REGION 1 UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED

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