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Lifeboat
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Lifeboat is a 1944 American drama, war, and survival film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The screenplay was written by Jo Swerling, John Steinbeck, and Ben Hecht. The cast includes Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak, and Mary Anderson. Produced by Kenneth Macgowan for 20th Century Studios, the film was shot in black-and-white with cinematography by Glen MacWilliams and editing by Dorothy Spencer. The score was composed by Hugo Friedhofer, and production design was handled by James Basevi.
The narrative is set in the Atlantic Ocean and focuses on World War II and seamanship. The film has a runtime of 96 or 97 minutes and was originally released in English. It was distributed by 20th Century Studios and Netflix. The movie was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director and an Academy Award for Best Story.
Audience and critical reception data show a rating of 7.6 from 33,691 votes on IMDb and a vote average of 7.355 from 478 votes on TMDb. The production budget was 1,590,000, with revenue of 1,000,000. The film is referenced by 280 other encyclopedia articles.
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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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