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Lifeboat is a American survival film directed by Alfred Hitchcock from a story by John Steinbeck. The film stars Tallulah Bankhead with William Bendix. Lifeboat may refer to: Lifeboat (shipboard), a small craft aboard a ship to allow for emergency escape; Lifeboat (rescue), a boat designed for sea rescues.
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The boat holds eight survivors of a Nazi torpedo attack: Higgins Heather Angel , who carries the body of her dead baby. This adroitly calculated cross-section of humanity is reduced by one when Mrs.
After a day or so of floating aimlessly about, the castaways pick up another passenger, Willy Walter Slezak , who is a survivor from the German U-boat. At first everyone assumes that Willy 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, Willy steers a course to his mother ship, while the others resign themselves to being prisoners of war. After it becomes necessary to amputate Gus's leg, Willy decides that the burly stoker is excess weight; while the others sleep, he tosses Gus overboard, watching dispassionately as the poor man drowns. When the rest of the passengers discover what he's done, all of them with one significant exception violently gang up on Gus, and once more, the lifeboat drifts about sans navigation.
Jo Swerling , John Steinbeck. Tallulah Bankhead as Connie Porter. John Hodiak as Kovac. Walter Slezak as Willy.
William Bendix as Gus. Mary Anderson as Alice.
Henry Hull as Rittenhouse. Heather Angel as Mrs. Hume Cronyn as Stanley. Canada Lee as Joe.
March 25, Rating: January 1, Full Review…. He requested, unsuccessfully, that his name be removed from the credits. Lifeboat was originally planned to be filmed in Technicolor with an all-male cast, many of whom were going to be unknowns. Canada Lee, who was primarily a stage actor [12] with only one film credit at the time, [13] was the first actor cast in the film. Hitchcock planned the camera angles for the film using a miniature lifeboat and figurines. Four lifeboats were used during shooting. Rehearsals took place in one, separate boats were used for close-ups and long shots and another was in the studio's large-scale tank, where water shots were made.
Lifeboat was in production from August 3 through November 17, Before shooting began, William Bendix replaced actor Murray Alper when Alper became ill and after two weeks of shooting, director of photography Arthur Miller was replaced by Glen MacWilliams because of illness. Tallulah Bankhead came down with pneumonia twice during shooting, and Mary Anderson became seriously ill during production, causing several days of production time to be lost.
He was saved by a lifeguard. The film is unique among Hitchcock's American films for having no musical score during the narrative apart from the singing of the U-boat captain, accompanied by flute ; the Fox studio orchestra was used only for the opening and closing credits. Hitchcock dismissed the idea of having music in a film about people stranded at sea by asking, "Where would the orchestra come from?
Director Alfred Hitchcock made cameo appearances in most of his films. Supposedly, he later received letters from people asking about Reduco, which he used again in Rope , where Hitchcock's profile and Reduco appear on a red neon sign. While modern critics see the film positively, Lifeboat 's portrayal of a German character in what was perceived as a positive fashion caused considerable controversy at the time of its release, during the height of World War Two.
Influential reviewers and columnists, including Dorothy Thompson and Bosley Crowther of The New York Times , saw the film as denigrating the American and British characters while glorifying the German. Crowther wrote that "the Nazis, with some cutting here and there, could turn Lifeboat into a whiplash against the 'decadent democracies. Such commentary caused Steinbeck, who had previously been criticized because of his handling of German characters in The Moon Is Down , to publicly dissociate himself from the film, to denounce Hitchcock and Swerling's treatment of his material, and to request that his name not be used by Fox in connection with the presentation of the film.
Crowther responded by detailing the differences between Steinbeck's novella and the film as released, accusing the film's creators of "pre-empting" Steinbeck's "creative authority". Hitchcock responded to the criticism by explaining that the film's moral was that the Allies needed to stop bickering and work together to win the war, and he defended the portrayal of the German character, saying, "I always respect my villain, build[ing] him into a redoubtable character that will make my hero or thesis more admirable in defeating him or it.
He wanted to say that you can't trust the enemy Criticism was also leveled at the script for its portrayal of the African-American character Joe as "too stereotypical".
Actor Canada Lee testified that he had attempted to round out the character by revising dialogue, primarily eliminating repeated "yessir"s and "nossir"s that sounded subservient, [17] and cutting some actions. However the Baltimore Afro-American ' s review, while commenting on shortcomings regarding the character, praised both the performance and its role depiction. Critics praised the film's acting, directing, and cinematography and noted with appreciation the lack of background music once the film proper begins.
Advertising for the film was also reduced, which resulted in the film's poor box office showing when it was released in Hitchcock directed, and Bankhead reprised her role from the film. The cast also featured Jeff Chandler and Sheldon Leonard.
In , Lifeboat was remade as a science fiction TV movie under the title Lifepod. Moving the action from a lifeboat to a spaceship's escape capsule in the year , the remake starred Ron Silver , who also directed, Robert Loggia , and CCH Pounder. The film was aired on the Fox channel in the United States.