Hitchcock - Lifeboat (1944) torrent

RUNTiME.........: 97 Minutes
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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 Tallulah
Bankhead, communistic-seaman John Hodiak, nurse Mary Anderson, mild-mannered
radio-operator Hume Cronyn, seriously wounded Brooklynese stoker William
Bendix, insufferable-capitalist Henry Hull, black-steward Canada Lee and
half-mad passenger Heather Angel, who carries the body of her dead baby. This
adroitly calculated cross-section of humanity is reduced by one when Ms.
Angel kills herself. After a day or so of floating aimlessly about, the
castaways pick up another passenger, Walter Slezak, who is a survivor from
the German U-boat. At first everyone assumes that Slezak cannot speak English,
but when the necessity arises he reveals himself to be conversant in several
languages and highly intelligent; in fact, he was the U-boat's captain. As the
only one on board with any sense of seamanship, Slezak steers a course to his
mother ship, while the others resign themselves to being prisoners of war.
After it becomes necessary to amputate Bendix's leg, Slezak decides that the
burly stoker is excess weight; while the others sleep, he tosses Bendix
overboard, watching dispassionately as the poor man drowns. When the rest of
the passengers discover what he's done, all of them (with the significant
exception of Lee) violently gang up on Slezak, and once more, the lifeboat
drifts about sans navigation. If you're wondering how Hitchcock was able to
make his characteristic cameo appearance in Lifeboat keep an eye on that
newspaper in the closing scenes.

Director .......... Alfred Hitchcock

Tallulah Bankhead . Constance 'Connie' Porter
William Bendix .... Gus Smith
Walter Slezak ..... Willy
Mary Anderson ..... Alice MacKenzie
John Hodiak ....... John Kovac
Henry Hull ........ Charles D. 'Ritt' Rittenhouse
Heather Angel ..... Mrs. Higgins
Hume Cronyn ....... Stanley 'Sparks' Garrett
Canada Lee ........ George 'Joe' Spencer