Lifeboat
1944 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.
Released: 1944-01-2896 minDir: Alfred HitchcockWar, DramaBudget: $1.6MBox office: $1.0M
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
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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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1940s adventure drama films1944 drama films1944 English-language films1944 films20th Century Fox filmsAmerican adventure drama filmsAmerican black-and-white filmsAmerican seafaring filmsAmerican survival filmsEnglish-language adventure drama filmsFilms about survivors of seafaring accidents or incidentsFilms based on short fiction