Lifeboat
- 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.
Trailer...
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