Season 2: Episode 55 - ALFRED HITCHCOCK: Lifeboat (1944)

Lifeboat (1944)

 

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock with script by Jo Swerling (It’s A Wonderful Life) based on a story idea by John Steinbeck.  It is the first limited setting films by Alfred Hitchcock which he would continue with Rope, Dial M for Murder and Rear Window.  It was highly controversial when released due to what many interpreted as a sympathetic German U-boat captain.

 

The film is known to have no musical soundtrack except for the beginning and end credits.  It is also known for its troubled shoots due to illnesses of all the cast and the near death accident of Hume Cronyn. 

 

The film stars Tallulah Bankhead in a rare film appearance, Canada Lee, Hume Cronyn and William Bendix.  Alfred Hitchock’s cameo appears ingeniously which he would use again in the film Rope.  The film was nominated for numerous awards and remade a science fiction thriller called Lifepod.

 

Opening Credits (.20); Introduction (3.30); Forming the Plot (13.08); Commercial Break (24.39); Lights, Camera, Action (26.22); Epilogue (1:10.08); End Credits (1:12.36); Closing Credits (1:13.45)

 

Opening Credits:  Rock the Boat by Hues Corporation the Pips from the album The Best of The Hues Corporation

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Closing Credits: Sit Down Your Rocking the Boat – by Sam Harris – Taken from the album A Suitcase of Memories

 

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