49th Parallel Page #7

- Are they still talking?

- Hush, child. Go to sleep.

How can a man like you, Vogel ...

I mean, you're a simple, good human being.

How can you get mixed up

with such a lot of gangsters?

What can you do?

When you're a boy,

you like playing soldiers.

When you're a young man, you can't

get work unless you belong to them.

When you're an old man,

you're anxious not to lose what you've got.

But there are thousands

of men like you, Vogel ...

... men who don't like

the way things are going.

I suppose so.

I suppose they don't know themselves.

I didn't know.

It's as if a blind man said

he doesn't know the sun shines.

- I suppose so.

- Why don't you stay with us, Vogel?

- Do you mean it?

- Of course I mean it.

Even if you know who I am ...

- ... where I come from

- I don't care who you are or where you come from.

- I know you.

- Thank you, Peter.

- It will mean internment.

- What's it matter?

I'll come back after the war.

This is your home.

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- [Hirth] Engine Room Artificer Vogel

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You are under arrest.

You are accused of desertion

and treachery to the Third Reich.

In the absence of

a properly constituted court ...

... I assume authority as your superior officer

and sentence you to death.

Have you anything to say?

The sentence will be carried out

immediately in the name of the Fhrer.

[Gunshots]

"Investigations by the R.C.M.P...

... have resulted in finding the remains

of a Canadian Airways sea plane ...

... similar to the one stolen

by the five Nazis at Wolstenholme.

- Give me the glasses.

- What for?

- Food.

- You can't eat them.

I can sell them.

- They're his.

- Come on, come on.

They belong to the fatherland.

It wouldn't let us starve, would it?

Congratulations, Lohrmann.

No field glass has ever

had a better end.

We shall view the future

better through these.

- [Chuckles] How much did he give you?

- Seven dollars.

Well, what are you waiting for?

You saw what the bulletin said.

They're watching the border.

But they don't know there are only three of us.

They still think there are five.

The police aren't fools.

They'll find out soon enough.

If we're caught, it won't matter

whether there are three or five or 10 of us.

We're going to change our plans.

- We're going to Vancouver.

- Vancouver?

A Japanese ship leaves Vancouver in a month's time.

- Is it far to Vancouver?

- About 2,000 kilometers.

- We can never get as far as that.

- The Fhrer has never admitted the word "can't."

Neither should we.

Our one consideration

must be how to get to ...

- [Man] Ham sandwich, sir

- How to get home.

Doesn't matter how we do it,

but we will get home.

That's how he works.

He says that it's Germany's

destiny to rule Europe.

Doesn't matter how she achieves

that destiny, but she will achieve it.

He gave me this.

These Canadians give everything away.

The road west is plain enough.

Follow the River Assiniboine for 50 miles.

Do we start now, Herr Leutnant?

No... No, we sleep tonight

in the railway station.

Tomorrow we'll catch a bus

outside the city limits, then walk.

He wanted us to fly to Vancouver.

Said it would save a lot of time.

- [Chuckling] What did you say, Herr Leutnant?

- I said we had plenty of time.

[Horn Honking]

[Vehicle Approaching]

[Horn Honking]

[Spits]

- [Vehicles Passing]

- [Horn Honking]

[Train Whistle Blowing]

Those are the Three Sisters Mountains.

We're in the park now, Banff National Park

Today's Indian Day.

It's the biggest crowd of the year.

There will be thousands of Indians.

You should stop over and see it.

I have an appointment in Vancouver.

You say these three men were here?

Well, they were right here.

- Can you describe them?

- Well, let me see, now.

There's only one that

I would remember right well.

Corporal!

Ladies and gentlemen.

[Man] Norman, I'm going to use

your mike to talk to the crowd

Attention please.

The mounted police have reason

to suspect that among this crowd ...

... are three enemies of this country.

They are not ordinary aliens,

escaped from Kananaskis Internment Camp.

They are survivors

from a German submarine ...

... the notorious U-37, which was sunk

in Hudson Bay by our air force.

These men are here in this courtyard

They may be standing right next to you

Each one of you, look closely at your neighbour.

These are descriptions of the three men.

One, who appears to be the leader ...

... is a well-built man of medium height.

He has very definite features,

a commanding manner ...

... is clean-shaven, brown hair.

He wears a blue suit and tan shoes.

... and carries himself

as if he'd been drilled.

There is no very good description

of the second man.

He is thin and inconspicuous in his manner.

He wears a suit of some light colour ...

... and a hat tilted over his eyes.

He may be carrying a bulky rucksack.

The third man is short and dark.

He wears no hat.

He has a tweed jacket and a bow tie.

He carries a parcel wrapped

in oilcloth and tied with thick string.

He is described as being

nervous in his manner.

I must ask all of you to stay

exactly where you are ...

... and not talk or move.

All of you, as citizens, can help

to bring these men to justice.

Each one of you, look closely at your neighbour.

Remember, each one of these men

has every reason to be afraid.

They've already been responsible

for the deaths of 11 defenceless people.

Sooner or later,

their nerves will crack

Look closely at your neighbour

- Corporal, there's your man!

- [Clamouring]

[Clamouring continues]

Herr Leutnant, it's a trail.

Hmm, come on then.

Lost?

- Yes.

- That's a difficult trail on foot in those outfits.

- You walked in from the lodge, I suppose

- Yes.

- Any plans?

- Plans?

Well, it'll be dark in an hour.

The moon doesn't rise till 11:00.

A lot of grizzlies on that trail.

- Grizzlies?

- Grizzly bears. Touchy beasts.

You wouldn't like 'em.

[Chuckles]

And they wouldn't like you.

I see.

- [Metal Clanging]

- Ah, dinner. You're just in time.

George will be pleased.

[Speaking Foreign Language]

Tricky things, aren't they?

The great thing is just to sit still.

- On holiday here?

- Yes, on holiday.

How do you find the lodge?

They used to do you a very good

lobster thermidor with a red Bordeaux.

They still do you a lobster,

but no more red Bordeaux.

- A nuisance, isn't it?

- Hmm?

The war, I ...

Anyhow, up here in the Rockies ...

... the war seems so remote,

one can't take it so seriously.

Of course one knows one half of humanity

is trying to wipe out the other half, but ...

... up here among the mountains

and the spruce forests ...

... one sees it in perspective.

So that it ...

it seems almost unimportant.

You've chosen a very beautiful place for your holiday.

Yes, it is beautiful, isn't it?

Actually, I'm here to work ... on a book.

- Oh, so you're a novelist?

- [Chuckling] Well, I write books.

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