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Lifeboat (1944) | User Rating
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DVD Release Date
• R1: Oct 18, 2005
Budget USD 1,590,000
Running Time
1 hour, 36 minutes
Country USA
Production Companies
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Studio 20th Century Fox
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Other Titles
• Lifeboat (1944)
• Das Rettungsboot (1974)
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Genre: War, Drama, Sea, Disaster, World War II, Suspense, Murder
Tagline: Six men and three women - against the sea and each other.
Plot: LIFEBOAT is an intense thriller crafted around the psychological drama produced when eight unlikely companions are thrown together by drastic circumstance. The exceptional performances of its ensemble cast make it a classic, one credited with reviving Tallulah Bankhead’s career. After a German U-boat torpedoes their ship, several survivors find themselves together in a lifeboat. Each is of a distinctly different background: Tallulah Bankhead’s character, the radiant Constance Porter, is a famed fashion writer; others include tycoon Charles Rittenhouse (Henry Hull), marxist seaman John Kovac (John Hodiak), Stanley Garret (Hume Cronyn), a radio operator, a wounded furnace stoker, a nurse, a grieving mother, and a porter. The group is joined by the commander of the German U-boat (Walter Slezak), which was itself sunk in the exchange. Choosing to take him aboard as a gesture of humanity, and for the sake of his seafaring skills, proves to be a fateful decision. Production was done almost entirely in studio, using a range of specialized water sets and props to allow Hitchcock to achieve the camera angles he wanted while employing rear-projected seascapes shot off the coast of Florida.
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| Written by |
| Jo Swerling
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| Cast |
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| Music By |
Hugo Friedhofer
Gone with the Wind, The Best Years of Our Lives, An Affair to Remember |
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