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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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Cast
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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 | ... | |
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Plot Summary
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Plot Synopsis
Storyline
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>
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What happens when six men and three women are alone in an open boat ? See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USARelease Date:
28 January 1944 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Náufragos See more »Box Office
Budget:
$1,590,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)Color:
Black and WhiteAspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1
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[indistinct shouting]
John Kovac: Ahoy there!
[climbs into boat]
John Kovac: Lady, you certainly don't look like somebody that's just been shipwrecked.
Connie Porter: Man, I certainly feel like it.
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(1815) (uncredited)
Music by Franz Schubert
Poem by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Played on flute by Henry Hull and Sung in German by Walter Slezak
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Trivia
Alfred Hitchcock called Ben Hecht in to read the final script and to rewrite the ending. See more »Goofs
The fish that is seen underwater going after Connie's gem bait is obviously being pulled to it by a line attached to its mouth, and never opens its mouth to take the object when it makes its "strike". See more »Quotes
[first lines][indistinct shouting]
John Kovac: Ahoy there!
[climbs into boat]
John Kovac: Lady, you certainly don't look like somebody that's just been shipwrecked.
Connie Porter: Man, I certainly feel like it.
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Soundtracks
"Heidenroslein, Op.3, No.3, D 257"(1815) (uncredited)
Music by Franz Schubert
Poem by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Played on flute by Henry Hull and Sung in German by Walter Slezak
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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.