Lifeboat
Summary:
Seeking a creative challenge after several years' worth of fairly elaborate melodramas, director Alfred Hitchcock stages all of the action in Lifeboat in one tiny boat, adrift in the North Atlantic. The boat holds eight survivors of a Nazi torpedo attack: sophisticated magazine writer/photographer Constance Porter (Tallulah Bankhead), Communist seaman John Kovac (John Ho... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Tallulah Bankhead - (Constance Porter)
William Bendix - (Gus Smith)
Walter Slezak - (Willy, the German submarine commander)
John Hodiak - (John Kovac)
Hume Cronyn - (Stanley Garett)
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Review:
Lifeboat shows what the disaster films of the '70s and beyond might have been like if they were shorn of their special effects and forced to concentrate on character rather than activity -- and if they were directed by a true master, of course. Today's audiences, weaned on The Poseidon Adventure et al, might find the basic setup (toss in a ha... Continue >>
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