Given main title credit is the great writer John Steinbeck, who only turned in a treatment for Lifeboat. Hollywood (and Washington) turned away from pro-Soviet films soon after launching some really embarrassing examples. That type, directly named, became extinct in wartime movies … the last one we remember was Bob Cummings in The Devil and Miss Jones. There’s also a holdover from ‘thirties social movies, a disgruntled Communist laborer (John Hodiak). Sophisticated reporter (Tallulah Bankhead) never got wet, but various swimmers make their way through the flotsam: a business tycoon (Henry Hull), an ordinary Joe with a severe leg wound (William Bendix), concerned nurse (Mary Anderson), English radioman (Hume Cronyn) and black steward (Canada Lee). A crisis develops: the German is the only qualified navigator, but can he be trusted to steer them to Bermuda and not his waiting U-Boat supply ship?īefore you can say ‘microcosm,’ the lifeboat collects a cross-section of wartime allies, a sort of civilian platoon. They’re eventually joined by a German sailor, the captain of the submarine that sank them and was itself sunk. When their steamer is torpedoed, nine survivors find their way to a solitary lifeboat. The group of survivors is literally ‘all in the same boat’ and eager to survive, but the rather critical screenplay, finessed by Hitchcock himself, doesn’t proffer any sentiments about adversity bringing out the best in people. Although it has a fairly upbeat finale, the film presents an unusually negative view of humanity. There’s nothing quite like Lifeboat among movies made during the war. Almost the entire picture is a visual experiment played out in front of rear-projection process screens. We see very few conventional shots, by 1944 standards. Lifeboat shows the director at his most creative, challenging himself by making an entire film within the confines of one open, crowded boat bobbing on the high seas. As with his Shadow of a Doubt, behind the technical trickery is a strong feeling for the humanity of his characters. But it’s one of Hitch’s best movies, at least from the humanist point of view.
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Some of the reviewers found this show distastefully anti-American, what with characters set up to represent Capitalism and Communism, plus strong content like the death of a baby. Hitchcock goes to war, this time for 20th Fox like his compatriots Powell & Pressburger, instead of a straight-on combat picture he makes an ‘appraisal’ film about the state of American unity. Written by: Jo Swerling, story by John Steinbeck Starring: Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson, John Hodiak, Henry Hull, Heather Angel, Hume Cronyn, Canada LeeĪrt Direction: James Basevi, Maurice Ransford Street Date Ma/ available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
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Can they trust the experienced sea captain - a German - who joins them? And when things become grim, will their behavior be any better than his?ġ944 / B&W / 1:37 flat full frame / 96 min. When a handful of English and Americans are lost at sea, survival depends on their ability to cooperate. Yet it hooks and holds audiences as strongly as any of the Master’s classics. When Alfred Hitchcock films are praised, this 1944 picture tends to get overlooked. NEXT COLOR PLANET/Hoshimachi Suisei by YYuio - kind a want intermediate level very good song You can enjoy with it and you will love this song☄️ Original….Dacw’Nghariad by Clare - To be fair, I'm not sure if this song would sound as good with easy tabs.I've been in love with this song ever since I heard it.
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