Lifeboat (1944)
- Directed by
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Genre
- drama film, war film, survival film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 36m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 7.4 of 10 from 485 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A group of survivors from a torpedoed freighter cram into a lifeboat with the German captain from the U-boat that sank them. They must decide whether to trust him as they struggle to survive on the open sea.
tenseclaustrophobicsuspensefulmoral ambiguitygrittypsychologicalbleakslow-burn
What happens
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. Though disparaged at the time of its release by a couple of influential film critics for its supposedly sympathetic depiction of a German U-boat captain, Lifeboat is now viewed more favorably and has been listed by several modern critics as one of Hitchcock's most underrated films. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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