Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Forty-Ninth Parallel is a 1941 war film in which a German U-boat is stranded in a Canadian bay, and its crew attempts to travel across Canada to the then-neutral United States. It stars Leslie Howard, Richard George, Raymond Massey, Laurence Olivier, Raymond Lovell, Anton Walbrook, Peter Moore and Glynis Johns. The movie was written by Rodney Ackland and Emeric Pressburger, and was directed by Michael Powell. The music was written by Ralph Vaughan Williams and was the first film score he wrote. It won the Academy Award for Best Story and was nominated for Best Picture and Best Writing, Screenplay. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.