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Lifeboat

Country: USA, Language: English, 97 mins

  • Director: Alfred Hitchcock
  • Writer: John Steinbeck; Jo Swerling
  • Producer: Alfred Hitchcock; Kenneth Macgowan

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Watch and learn.

A Hitchcock masterclass...and, Bankhead is captivating.

Brilliant.


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The(ir) Blurb...

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.

Cast & Characters

Tallulah Bankhead as Connie Porter;
William Bendix as Gus;
Walter Slezak as Willy;
Mary Anderson as Alice MacKenzie;
John Hodiak as Kovac;
Henry Hull as Rittenhouse;
Heather Angel as Mrs. Higley;
Hume Cronyn as Sparks;
Canada Lee as Joe;
William Yetter Jr. as German Sailor