Lifeboat (1944) 7.8
Several survivors of a torpedoed ship find themselves in the same boat with one of the men who sunk it. Director:Alfred Hitchcock |
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Lifeboat (1944) 7.8
Several survivors of a torpedoed ship find themselves in the same boat with one of the men who sunk it. Director:Alfred Hitchcock |
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| Tallulah Bankhead | ... | ||
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William Bendix | ... | |
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Walter Slezak | ... | |
| Mary Anderson | ... | ||
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John Hodiak | ... | |
| Henry Hull | ... | ||
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Heather Angel | ... | |
| Hume Cronyn | ... | ||
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Canada Lee | ... | |
In the Atlantic during WWII, a ship and a German U-boat are involved in a battle and both are sunk. The survivors from the ship gather in one of the boats. They are from a variety of backgrounds: an international journalist, a rich businessman, the radio operator, a nurse, a steward, a sailor and an engineer with communist tendencies. Trouble starts when they pull a man out of the water who turns out to be from the U-boat. Written by Col Needham <col@imdb.com>
For some reason, "Lifeboat" has remained a relatively obscure and overlooked Hitchcock film. True, the pace is nothing like a North By Northwest or Rear Window, but the level of drama provided is as high as any of Hitchcock's films, early or late. The scene where the mother wakes up in Tallulah's fur coat and asks where her little Johnny is was one of the most gut wrenching scenes I've ever seen in a movie, and I've seen plenty of movies. The movie, while wonderfully developing its own nine characters, also raises questions aimed at the viewer, pointedly questioning how each one of us would react in those certain situations. Personally, I thought the movie was another Hitchcock masterpiece, and I would definitely give it four out of four stars.