Lifeboat (1944)
DIRECTED BY: Alfred Hitchcock;
WRITTEN BY: Jo Swerling;
CINEMATOGRAPHY BY: Glen MacWilliams;
MUSIC BY: Hugo Friedhofer.
PRODUCER: 20th Century-Fox, Kenneth McGowan.
GENRE(S): Books to Film: John Steinbeck, Nazis & Other Paramilitary Slugs, Sail Away, Survival, World War II
CAST: Tallulah Bankhead, John Hodiak, William Bendix, Canada Lee, Walter Slezak, Hume Cronyn, Henry Hull, Mary Anderson, Heather Angel, William Yetter Jr.;
AWARDS: N.Y. Film Critics 1944: Actress (Bankhead).
REVIEW: When a German U-boat sinks a freighter during WWII, the eight survivors seek refuge in a tiny lifeboat. Tension peaks after the drifting passengers take in a stranded Nazi. Hitchcock saw a great challenge in having the entire story take place in a lifeboat and pulled it off with his usual flourish. In 1989, the film "Dead Calm" replicated the technique. From a story by John Steinbeck. Bankhead shines.
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