Lifeboat (1944)

Film details

Featuring

Tallulah Bankhead William Bendix Walter Slezak
Director

Alfred Hitchcock
Country

USA
Year

1944
Genre

War
Type

Film
Category

Fiction

Synopsis

Story of the group of survivors from a torpedoed ship in the Atlantic during the Second World War. A cynical journalist, Connie, is pleased with the photographs she has taken during the sinking, but as more people board the lifeboat she is in, the less her work seems to matter. The group, of rich and poor, male and female, black and white, British and American, find themselves with a dilemma when they are joined by a Nazi from the u-boat that sank their ship. They debate whether to throw him overboard or let him stay, and their decision brings tremendous consequences as they struggle with the cold, the heat, the lack of provisions, the stormy weather, one man's badly damaged leg and the uncertainty of where they are heading and who should be in charge.

Cast & Credits

Cast
- - Constance Porter, 'Connie'
    
    Tallulah Bankhead
  - Gus Smith
    
    William Bendix
  - Willy
    
    Walter Slezak
  - Alice MacKenzie
    
    Mary Anderson
  - John Kovac
    
    John Hodiak
  - Charles S. Rittenhouse
    
    Henry Hull
  - Mrs Higgins
    
    Heather Angel
  - Stanley Garrett
    
    Hume Cronyn
  - Joe Spencer
    
    Canada Lee
  - [slimming man in newspaper 'before and after' ad]
    
    Alfred Hitchcock
Credits
- Direction:
  - Directed by
    
    Alfred Hitchcock
  - Assistant Director
    
    Saul Wurtzel (uncredited)
  Rights:
  - ©
    
    Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
  Production:
  - Presents
    
    Twentieth Century-Fox
  - Produced by
    
    Kenneth Macgowan
  Writing:
  - Screen Play by
    
    Jo Swerling
  - Screenplay
    
    Alfred Hitchcock (uncredited)
  - Screenplay
    
    Alma Reville (uncredited)
  - [Based on the story] By
    
    John Steinbeck
  Photography:
  - Director of Photography
    
    Glen Macwilliams
  Special Effects:
  - Special Photographic Effects
    
    Fred Sersen
  Editing:
  - Film Editor
    
    Dorothy Spencer
  Design:
  - Art Direction
    
    James Basevi
  - Art Direction
    
    Maurice Ransford
  - Set Decorations
    
    Thomas Little
  - Associate [Set Decorator]
    
    Frank E. Hughes
  Costumes:
  - Costumes
    
    Hubert, Rene
  Make-up:
  - Make-up Artist
    
    Guy Pearce
  Music:
  - Music
    
    Friedhofer, Hugo W.
  - Musical Direction
    
    Emil Newman
  Sound:
  - Sound
    
    Bernard Freericks
  - Sound
    
    Roger Heman
  - Sound System
    
    Western Electric Recording
  Consultant:
  - Technical Adviser
    
    Fitzsimmons of the National Maritime Union, Thomas