Directed by:
Alfred HitchcockComposer:
Hugo FriedhoferCast:
Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson, John Hodiak, Henry Hull, Heather Angel, Hume Cronyn, Canada Lee, Alfred Hitchcock (more)VOD (1)
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After a Nazi torpedo reduces an ocean liner to wooden splinters and scorched personal effects, the survivors of the attack pull themselves aboard a drifting lifeboat in the hope of eventual rescue. But the motivations of the German submarine captain (played by Walter Slezak) on the eponymous craft might extend beyond mere survival. Based on an unpublished novella by John Steinbeck (written on commission expressly to provide treatment material for Hitchcock's screen scenario), Lifeboat found the Master of Suspense navigating a course of maximal tension in the most minimal of settings with a consistently inventive, beautifully paced drama that would foreshadow the single-set experiments of Rope and Dial M for Murder. With a cast including Shadow of a Doubt veteran Hume Cronyn and the extraordinary, irrepressible Tallulah Bankhead, this "picture of characters", as François Truffaut aptly termed the film, oscillates dazzlingly between comic repartée and white-knuckle suspense a perfect example of "the Hitchcock touch". (Eureka Entertainment)
(more)Cast
Tallulah Bankhead
USA
Best movies:
Lifeboat (1944)
Devil and the Deep (1932)
Fanatic (1965)
William Bendix
USA
Best movies:
Detective Story (1951)
The Big Steal (1949)
Lifeboat (1944)
Walter Slezak
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Michael (1924)
Born to Kill (1947)
Lifeboat (1944)
Mary Anderson
USA
Best movies:
Gone with the Wind (1939)
The Song of Bernadette (1943)
The Sea Hawk (1940)
John Hodiak
USA
Best movies:
The People Against O'Hara (1951)
The Harvey Girls (1946)
Lifeboat (1944)
Henry Hull
USA
Best movies:
Objective, Burma! (1945)
The Proud Rebel (1958)
The Chase (1966)
Heather Angel
UK
Best movies:
The Last of the Mohicans (1936)
Alice in Wonderland (1951)
The Informer (1935)
Hume Cronyn
Canada
Best movies:
Cleopatra (1963)
12 Angry Men (1997) (TV movie)
Brute Force (1947)
Canada Lee
USA
Best movies:
Lifeboat (1944)
Body and Soul (1947)
Alfred Hitchcock
UK
Best movies:
Psycho (1960)
Rear Window (1954)
North by Northwest (1959)
William Yetter Jr.
USA
Best movies:
Lifeboat (1944)
Golden Earrings (1947)
Berlin Express (1948)