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49th Parallel (1941) is simply one of the best wartime propaganda movies ever made, and I\u2019m not just saying that because it takes place in my native Canada. The film \u2014 produced by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger before they went on to do The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), I Know Where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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