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Lifeboat

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Lifeboat
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NR,1hr 40min
Genres:
Drama,Action,War
Released:
January 12, 1944
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Distributor:
20th Century Fox
Starring:
Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak  ...more
Synopsis: Seeking a creative challenge after several years' worth of fairly elaborate melodramas, director Alfred Hitchcock stages all of the action in Lifeboat in one tiny boat, adrift in the North Atlantic. The boat holds eight survivors of a Nazi torpedo attack: sophisticated magazine writer/photographer Constance Porter (Tallulah Bankhead), Communist seaman John Kovac (John Hodiak), nurse Alice MacKenzie (Mary Anderson), mild-mannered radio-operator Stan (Hume Cronyn), seriously wounded Brooklynese stoker ... Full Synopsis
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Craig Butler, AMG Review
Lifeboat shows what the disaster films of the '70s and beyond might have been like if they were shorn of their special effects and forced to concentrate on character rather than activity -- and if they were directed by a true master, of course. Today's audiences, weaned on The Poseidon Adventure et al, might find the basic setup (toss in a handful of characters from every walk of life and force them ... Full Review
Featured Cast
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Tallulah Bankhead
Constance Porter
William Bendix
Gus Smith
Walter Slezak
Willy, the German submarine commander
John Hodiak
John Kovac
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