They can’t all be winners. Michael Powell’s (screenwriter Emeric Pressburger is not co-billed in triplicate on this one) 49th Parallel certainly has its moments–unfortunately, some of them aren’t GOOD moments. In conception, this thing is truly ingenious: a dark picaresque tale that moves the (Nazi) highwaymen to center stage, beset by all manner of complacent [...]
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Hitler vs. Hosers (Faux-sers?)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Anton Walbrook, Canada, Dark Picaresque, Eric Portman, Gay F-C Fur Trappairs, Glynis Johns, Hutterites, Laurence Olivier, Leslie Howard, Mark Cardigan, Michael Powell, Niall MacGinnis, Picaresque, Powell & Pressburger, propaganda, Raymond Massey, World War Two on February 18, 2009 | 3 Comments »
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