Lifeboat (film)

Lifeboat is a 1944 World War II movie, directed by Alfred Hitchcock from a story written by John Steinbeck. The whole movie takes place in a lifeboat.

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1944 - World War II - Alfred Hitchcock - John Steinbeck - Lifeboat

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A group of American and British citizens are stuck in a lifeboat after their ship is sunk by a Nazi U-boat. The German captain of the U-boat is in the lifeboat as well.

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American - British - Nazi - U-boat - German

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The movie starred Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson, John Hodiak, Henry Hull, Heather Angel, Hume Cronyn and Canada Lee.

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Tallulah Bankhead - William Bendix - Walter Slezak - Mary Anderson - John Hodiak - Henry Hull - Heather Angel - Hume Cronyn - Canada Lee

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Of all Hitchcock's films, this is perhaps the one in which we would least expect to see a Hitchcock cameo since the action takes place entirely on a lifeboat. However, in one scene, one of the characters can be seen reading a newspaper. In the newspaper, an advertisement for Reduco Obesity Slayer is visible which features before and after pictures of Hitchcock's world-famous profile. Hitchcock later said that he received letters shortly after the film was released asking where they could obtain this miraculous, though fictitious, dieting aid.

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In 1993 the movie was remade as a science fiction TV movie titled Lifepod. Moving the action from a lifeboat to a spaceship's escape capsule, the remake starred Ron Silver, Robert Loggia and CCH Pounder. Silver also directed.

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Remade - Science fiction - TV movie - Lifepod - Ron Silver - Robert Loggia - CCH Pounder

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