Lifeboat (1944 film)
1944 American survival film by Alfred Hitchcock / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Lifeboat is a 1944 American survival film directed by Alfred Hitchcock from a story by John Steinbeck. It stars Tallulah Bankhead and William Bendix, alongside Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson, John Hodiak, Henry Hull, Heather Angel, Hume Cronyn and Canada Lee. The film is set entirely on a lifeboat launched from a passenger vessel torpedoed and sunk by a Nazi U-boat.
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Directed by | Alfred Hitchcock |
Screenplay by | Jo Swerling |
Story by | John Steinbeck |
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Cinematography | Glen MacWilliams |
Edited by | Dorothy Spencer |
Music by | Hugo W. Friedhofer |
Production company | 20th Century Fox |
Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 97 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $1.59 million[1][2] |
Box office | $1 million (rentals)[3] |
The first in Hitchcock's "limited-setting" films, the others being Rope (1948), Dial M for Murder and Rear Window (both 1954), it is the only film Hitchcock made for 20th Century Fox. The film received three Oscar nominations for Best Director, Best Original Story and Best Cinematography ā Black and White. Bankhead won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress.
Though highly controversial in its time for what many interpreted as its sympathetic depiction of a German U-boat captain, Lifeboat is now viewed more favorably and has been listed by several modern critics as one of Hitchcock's more underrated films.[4][5][6]