Lifeboat
- Original title
- Lifeboat
- Year
- 1944
- Running time
- 96 min.
- Country
- United States
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Jo Swerling. Story: John Steinbeck
- Cast
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- Tallulah Bankhead
- John Hodiak
- William Bendix
- Hume Cronyn
- Mary Anderson
- Walter Slezak
- Henry Hull
- Canada Lee
- Heather Angel
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- Music
- Cinematography
Glen MacWilliams (B&W)- Producer
- Genre
- Mystery | Survival Film. II World War. One Location
- Movie Groups
- John Steinbeck Adaptations
- Synopsis
- In the Atlantic during WWII, a ship and a German U-boat are involved in a battle and both are sunk. The survivors from the ship gather in one of the boats. They are from a variety of backgrounds: an international journalist, a rich businessman, the radio operator, a nurse, a steward, a sailor and an engineer with communist tendencies. Trouble starts when they pull a man out of the water who turns out to be from the U-boat.
- Rankings Position
- Awards
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1944: 3 Nominations for Oscar: Best Director, Cinematography (B&W), Story1944: New York Film Critics Circle: Best Actress (Tallulah Bankhead)1944: National Board of Review (NBR): nominated to Top Films (In alphabetical order).
- Critics' reviews
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"There are enough crises and tensions within the 96-minute running time to hold a viewer fully attentive."
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