Forty-Ninth Parallel (1941)

Philip Armstrong Scott: Nazis? That explains your arrogance, stupidity, and bad manners.

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Andy Brock: [to Hirth] I can grouse about the food, and the C.O. and anything I blamed please. And that's more than you with your Gestapo and your stormtroopers and your Aryan bourgeoisie. Ahhh, nuts. What's the good of talking to you. You can't even begin to understand democracy. We own the right to be fed up with anything we damn please and say so out loud when we feel like it.

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Lieutenant Hirth: Yes, I am a Nazi. Heil Hitler!

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Esmond Knight was first choice to play Lieutenant Hirth, but he had enlisted in the Royal Navy at the outbreak of war.
Emeric Pressburger said, "Goebbels Josef Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister considered himself a master of propaganda but I'd thought I'd show him a thing or two". Ironically, Pressburger's status in Britain at the time was as an enemy alien, so when he returned from filming in Canada he found himself imprisoned and threatened with deportation. Thanks to the intervention of Michael Powell and the Ministry of Information, this did not happen.
All of the opening travelogue was shot by Freddie Young with a handheld camera out the windows of trains, cars and planes.
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