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"Six men and three women - against the sea and each other."

Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Technical Information 3 Film Download Links 4 DVD Recommendations 5 Recent DVD Releases 5.1 released in 2006 5.2 released in 2005 6 See Also... 7 Image Gallery 8 Film Frames 9 Themes 10 Cast and Crew

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. (© IMDB)

Technical Information

• black & white
• sound mix: mono (Western Electric Sound System)
• aspect ratio: 1.37:1 Spherical
• running time: 96 minutes
• production studio: 20th Century Fox

Film Download Links

• Amazon - Video on Demand (USA)

DVD Recommendations

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Recent DVD Releases

• to view all of the DVD releases of this film, see Lifeboat (1944) - DVD releases

released in 2006

	Lifeboat (1944) - Fox Home Entertainment (France, July 2006) PAL 1.33:1
	Um Barco e Nove Destinos (1944) - Fox Home Entertainment (Brazil, 2006) NTSC 1.33:1
	Lifeboat (1944) - Fox Home Entertainment (UK, 2006) PAL 1.33:1 [01:33:30]
	Lifeboat (1944) - Fox Home Entertainment (France, 2006) PAL 1.33:1 [01:33:30]

released in 2005

Lifeboat (1944) - Fox Home Entertainment (USA, 2005) NTSC 1.33:1 [01:36:27]

...view older DVD releases

See Also...

For further relevant information about this film, see also...

• 1000 Frames of Lifeboat (1944)
• Articles about Lifeboat (1944)
• Awards and Nominations
• Complete Cast and Crew
• Radio adaptations
• Titles, captions, etc
• Web links to information, articles, reviews, etc

Image Gallery

Images from the Hitchcock Gallery (click to view larger versions or search for all relevant images)...

Film Frames

Themes

• the Hitchcock cameo - starring in the newspaper advert for "Reduco"
  

Cast and Crew

Directed by:

• Alfred Hitchcock

Starring:

• 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 Garrett
• Canada Lee - George "Joe" Spencer
• William Yetter Junior - German sailor

Produced by:

• Kenneth Macgowan

Written by:

• Ben Hecht
• John Steinbeck - original story
• Jo Swerling

Photographed by:

• Glen MacWilliams

Edited by:

• Dorothy Spencer

Music by:

• Hugo Friedhofer

Costume Design by:

• René Hubert

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