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Lifeboat

1944

Alfred Hitchcock

Tallulah Bankhead, John Hodiak, William Bendix, Hume Cronyn ...

7.3

5,747

Mystery 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.

	Media	Author	Review
		Variety Staff Variety	Hitchcock pilots the piece skillfully, ingeniously developing suspense and action. Despite that it’s a slow starter, the picture, from the beginning, leaves a strong impact"
		Douglas Pratt The Hollywood Reporter	"There are enough crises and tensions within the 96-minute running time to hold a viewer fully attentive."
		Bosley Crowther The New York Times	"A tense and vital drama of survivors adrift from a torpedoed ship, absorbing in its revelations of character and its brilliantly pictorialized details"
		Keith Phipps AV Club	"The roots of reality TV can be found here, but unlike most reality TV, Hitchcock shows a genuine (though characteristically distant) interest in people"
		Time Out	"The script, started by Steinbeck and finished by Hitchcock, appears too calculated. It's worth seeing, though, for Hitchcock's handling of actors in a confined setting"
		Angie Errigo Empire	"Although it’s not one of his most famous films, Alfred Hitchcock’s gripping shipwreck survival thriller ranks among his most audacious and successful technical experiments in suspense."

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