Lifeboat

(1944)

96 minutes

Suspense / Thriller / War

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Cast:

Hume Cronyn as Stanley 'Sparks' Garrett
Mary Anderson as Alice MacKenzie
Tallulah Bankhead as Constance 'Connie' Porter
William Bendix as Gus Smith
Walter Slezak as Willi
John Hodiak as John Kovac
Henry Hull as Charles D. 'Ritt' Rittenhouse
Heather Angel as Mrs. Higgins
Canada Lee as George 'Joe' Spencer
William Yetter Jr. as German sailor

This film is set during World War II, where a ship and German U-boat battle each other in the Atlantic and sink. The survivors consist of an international journalist, a wealthy businessman, the radio operator, a nurse, a steward, a sailor and a communist engineer who all gather onto one lifeboat. Problems arise when they help a man out of the water, but he is a German sailor from the U-boat.