Boxcars711 Saturday Matinee - Screen Directors Playhouse "Lifeboat" (11-16-50)

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English - September 08, 2007 16:46 - 1 hour - 14.1 MB - ★★★★ - 74 ratings
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Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
US 1944, b/w, 96 min.

With Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak English and German w/English Subtitles. Based on a story by John Steinbeck, Lifeboat has Hitchcock skillfully blending elements of his trademark psychological thrillers with propaganda for the Allied cause during World War II. The film takes place on a lifeboat, where Allied survivors of a shipwreck caused by a German U-boat struggle to survive. When the group saves a Nazi from the water, tensions begin to mount in the confined space of the small boat. Tallulah Bankhead gives her definitive film performance as a materialistic reporter.