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Lifeboat
Sign in to save1944 American survival film by Alfred Hitchcock
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7.4During World War II, a small group of survivors is stranded in a lifeboat together after the ship they were traveling on is destroyed by a German U-boat.
Cast
- Tallulah Bankhead as Connie Porter
- William Bendix as Gus Smith
- Walter Slezak as Willi
- Mary Anderson as Alice MacKenzie
- John Hodiak as John Kovac
- Henry Hull as Charles J. Rittenhouse
Themes
- sea
- journalist
- submarine
- boat
- world war ii
- black and white
- lifeboat
- radio operator
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Screenplay by
- Jo Swerling
- Story by
- John Steinbeck
- Produced by
- Darryl F. Zanuck Kenneth Macgowan
- Starring
- Tallulah Bankhead William Bendix Walter Slezak Mary Anderson John Hodiak Henry Hull Heather Angel Hume Cronyn Canada Lee
- Cinematography
- Glen MacWilliams
- Edited by
- Dorothy Spencer
- Music by
- Hugo W. Friedhofer
- Production company
- 20th Century Fox
- Distributed by
- 20th Century Fox
- Release date
- January 28, 1944 ( 1944-01-28 )
- Running time
- 97 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $1.59 million
- Box office
- $1 million (rentals)
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Encyclopedic overview
Lifeboat is a 1944 American survival film directed by Alfred Hitchcock from a story by John Steinbeck. It stars Tallulah Bankhead and William Bendix, alongside Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson, John Hodiak, Henry Hull, Heather Angel, Hume Cronyn and Canada Lee. The film is set entirely on a lifeboat launched from a freighter torpedoed and sunk by a Nazi U-boat.
The first in Hitchcock's "limited-setting" films, the others being Rope (1948), Dial M for Murder and Rear Window (both 1954), it is the only film Hitchcock made for 20th Century Fox. The film received three Oscar nominations for Best Director, Best Original Story and Best Cinematography – Black and White. Bankhead won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress.
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