(U.S. title: The Invaders.) "Preceding Noel Coward's In Which We Serve by almost a year, 49th Parallel was not only one of the few really big prestige British films of the early years of the war (when large-scale production was heavily curtailed), but also, in Britain at least, was one of the biggest box-office hits. Its subtle propagandist aim was to help ease America into the war. (The story of German U-Boat survivors 'invading' Canada was intended to remind America that the war could very easily be brought to her own shores.) The propagandist element seems somewhat heavy-handed today, especially in the Leslie Howard sequence, but as a rousing adventure tale, backed up by excellent location work in Canada, it holds up very well indeed, though it lacks those touches of puckish humor that one has come to expect from Powell. Oddly enough, as in Hitchcock's Lifeboat, it is the efficient Nazi (excellently played by Eric Portman) who quite unintentionally becomes the 'hero' and who wins most of the audience sympathy-today, at least, though less noticeably so in 1941!" William K. Everson