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>
In one of Alfred Hitchcock's earliest films, six people with different personalities and backgrounds are stranded together in a lifeboat after the passenger-carrying freighter they are on is sunk by a German u-boat in the Mid-Atlantic. The cast includes the fabulous Tallulah Bankhead as a bitchy photo-journalist, Hume Cronyn as kind-hearted man who finds love on the lifeboat, Canada Lee as a kind steward, Walter Slezak as a mysterious German, and John Hodiak who has to dodge Tallulah's nonstop advances. Hitchcock did this film on one set - the single lifeboat. What's amazing is that he could keep things interesting for two hours, but he managed to somehow. Bankhead is this movie's greatest asset. Reportedly, she didn't wear underwear on the set and constantly kept the crew at attention! This is a great, novel film.