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Lifeboat

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Original title

Lifeboat

Year

1944

Running time

96 min.

Country

United States

Director

Alfred Hitchcock

Screenwriter

Jo Swerling. Story: John Steinbeck

Cast

Music

Hugo Friedhofer

Cinematography

Glen MacWilliams (B&W)

Producer

20th Century Fox

Genre

Mystery | Survival Film. II World War. One Location

Movie Groups

John Steinbeck Adaptations

Synopsis

In the Atlantic during WWII, a ship and a German U-boat are involved in a battle and both are sunk. The survivors from the ship gather in one of the boats. They are from a variety of backgrounds: an international journalist, a rich businessman, the radio operator, a nurse, a steward, a sailor and an engineer with communist tendencies. Trouble starts when they pull a man out of the water who turns out to be from the U-boat.

Rankings Position

#69 Best Movies and TV Series about the Second World War
#136 Best Mystery Films

Awards: 1944: 3 Nominations for Oscar: Best Director, Cinematography (B&W), Story

1944: New York Film Critics Circle: Best Actress (Tallulah Bankhead)

1944: National Board of Review (NBR): nominated to Top Films (In alphabetical order).

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