49th Parallel

This is an interesting view into how the needs of propaganda and drama are in opposition to each other. The former requires rhetoric and polemic while the latter requires subtlety. Michael Powell and his new, regular writing partner Emeric Pressburger made the most of the dictates of the Ministry of Information to create a film that portrayed the Nazi way of life as violent and brutal while the Western, mostly British-inspired life to be peaceful but hiding great strength. Essentially broken...