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Lifeboat (1944)
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Part mystery, part wartime polemic, Lifeboat finds director Alfred Hitchcock tackling a cinematic challenge that foreshadows the self-imposed handicaps of Rope and Rear Window. As with those subsequent features, Hitchcock confines his action and characters to a single set, in this instance the lone surviving lifeboat from an Allied freighter sunk by a German U-boat in the North Atlantic. A less confident, ingenious filmmaker might have opened up John Steinbeck's dialogue-driven character study beyond the battered boat and its cargo of survivors, but Hitchcock instead revels in his predicament to exploit the enforced...
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This film got Hitchcock an Oscar nomination and it was well deserved. Tallulah Bankhead got an award from the New York Film Critics for her role in this John Steinbeck story about survivors on a lifeboat.
There was an eclectic mix of characters with a German Captain, an American who changed his German name, a...
(complete Lifeboat review by Movie Addict)
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