Lifeboat
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Short description
During World War II, a German submarine torpedoes an American merchant ship in the Atlantic. A handful of survivors, among them a journalist, a wealthy businessman, a radio operator, a nurse, a steward, a sailor and an engineer, end up sharing a single small lifeboat. Their situation grows more complicated when they pull a man from the water and realize he belongs to the crew of the U-boat that sank them. As food and water run short and the group drifts with no land in sight, tensions build over how much to trust their new companion.
Alfred Hitchcock directed Lifeboat, the nineteenth of the forty-three films he made in chronological order, following Shadow of a Doubt and preceding Spellbound. Jo Swerling and Ben Hecht wrote the screenplay, and Hitchcock produced with Kenneth Macgowan for 20th Century Fox. Tallulah Bankhead plays Connie Porter, with William Bendix, Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson, John Hodiak and Henry Hull among the cast.
The film was released in January 1944 and runs ninety-six minutes. Made for about two million dollars, it returned roughly half that amount worldwide. On IMDb it holds a 7.8 out of 10 from thirty-one critics' reviews, while on TMDB it sits at 7.4 out of 10 from around five hundred votes, a narrower gap between professional and audience response than many of Hitchcock's films show.
What's left behind the scenes
- The film is based on a work by John Steinbeck.
- As a result of prolonged exposure to cold water, most of the actors in this film contracted pneumonia.
- After Tallulah Bankhead fell ill with pneumonia, Alfred Hitchcock gifted the actress a small puppy. This gift, according to the director's intention, was meant to give her optimism and self-confidence. Ironically, the puppy already had a name – "Hitchcock"!
- Alfred Hitchcock invited Ben Hecht to rework the final part of the script.
- A card role-playing board game based on the film, called "Lifeboat", was released, and also published in Russian under the title "Overboard!"
- The photographs of Alfred Hitchcock used for his cameo are genuine. The fact is that at the time, Hitchcock was on a strict diet (although he did not use the fictional Reduco, but another weight loss product) and lost weight from 130 to 90 kg. Hitchcock said: "Fat people simply flooded me with letters, wanting to know how to get their hands on the precious elixir."
- During filming, some members of the crew reproached Tallulah Bankhead for not wearing underwear – this was particularly noticeable during scenes where the actress jumped over the side of the lifeboat. When Hitchcock was told about this, he ironically remarked: "I don't even know who to punish – the costume designer or the hairdresser."
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