Lifeboat (1944)
Lifeboat (1944)
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Cast & Crew.
Tallulah Bankhead
Connie Porter
William Bendix
Gus Smith
Walter Slezak
Willi
Mary Anderson
Alice MacKenzie
John Hodiak
John Kovac
Henry Hull
Charles J. Rittenhouse
Heather Angel
Mrs. Higley
Hume Cronyn
Stanley 'Sparks' Garrett
Canada Lee
Joe Spencer
William Yetter Jr.
Young German Sailor (uncredited)
Jo Swerling
Screenplay
Alfred Hitchcock
Director / Idea / Producer
Glen MacWilliams
Director of Photography
Kenneth Macgowan
Producer
James Basevi
Art Direction
René Hubert
Costume Design
Thomas Little
Set Decoration
Dorothy Spencer
Editor
Maurice Ransford
Art Direction
Guy Pearce
Makeup Artist
Bernard Freericks
Sound
Fred Sersen
Visual Effects
Roger Heman Sr.
Sound
Emil Newman
Music Director
Queenie Leonard
Dialogue Coach
William Goetz
Executive Producer
Darryl F. Zanuck
Executive Producer
Saul Wurtzel
Assistant Director
Ben Silvey
Unit Production Manager
Eugene Joseff
Other
Lyman Hallowell
Assistant Editor
Arthur C. Miller
Additional Director of Photography
Media.
Details.
Release DateJanuary 28, 1944
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 36m
Content RatingNR
Budget$1,590,000
Box Office$1,000,000
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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.
Though dispararaged 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.