Lifeboat

USA - 1944 - black and white

Written by:
Jo Swerling
John Steinbeck

Cinematography by:
Glen MacWilliams

Production design by:
James Basevi
Maurice Ransford

Costume design by:
René Hubert

Music by:
Hugo Friedhofer

Film editing by:
Dorothy Spencer

Produced by:
Kenneth MacGowan

  Cast

Tallulah Bankhead (Constance Porter)

William Bendix (Gus Smith)

Walter Slezak (Willy,U-Boat captain)

Mary Anderson (Alice MacKenzie)

John Hodiak (John Kovac)

Henry Hill (Charles Rittenhouse)

Heather Angel (Mrs. Higgins)

Hume Cronyn (Stanley Garrett)

Canada Lee (George Spencer)

William Yetter Jr. (german sailorman)

 

During the second world war a German U-boat sinks a passengers ship in
the Atlantic, but it gets destroyed too.
The survivors from the ship are in a boat: they are a journalist, a businessman,
a radio operator, a nurse, a steward, a sailor and an engineer.
They pull out a man from the water. He is a sailor of the U-boat and leads
the boat to a German sea side.
At the beginning Americans try to trust him, but they soon can suffer the German
no more and they push him into water again.

This is a psychological thriller movie; Hitchcock deeply enters each character's mind
and paints their behavior.

 


 


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