The German sailor pulls a gun but is disarmed by Joe. Rittenhouse is now all for killing him, and the others, including Kovac, have to hold him back. They talk briefly about their plans for after the rescue.Ī frightened, wounded, young German seaman is pulled aboard the lifeboat. Rittenhouse admires a picture of Joe's family and still persists in calling him "Pullman porter George". After the battle ends, Kovac estimates that the Allied vessel will be there in 20 minutes. But before a launch can pick them up, both it and the supply ship are sunk by gunfire from an US warship and a brief battle is waged between the two ships which nearly destroys the little boat. It is the German supply ship to which Willi had been steering them. A fish strikes, but Joe sights a ship, and in the rush for the oars, the line goes overboard and the bracelet is lost. Stanley proposes to Alice, and she accepts, although they have little hope of surviving.Ĭonnie chastises everyone for giving up then offers her bracelet as bait for fish. "What do you do with people like that?" No one answers. Later, Rittenhouse says that he will never understand Willi's ingratitude. In anger, they descend upon Willi as a group, all but Joe, to beat Willi and toss him from the boat to his death. Willi explains that like everyone on a U-boat he had food tablets and energy pills. When the inhabitants realize that Willi does actually have a flask of water, Joe pulls it from Willi's shirt, but it breaks. Gus' calls for help rouse Stanley and the others, but it is too late. While the others sleep, Willi pushes him over the side. Gus tries to tell Stanley but Stanley doesn't believe him. Gus Smith, who has been drinking seawater and is hallucinating, catches Willi drinking water from a hidden flask. Kovac takes charge, rationing the little food and water they have, but Willi, who has been consulting a concealed compass and reveals that he speaks English, wrests control away from him in a storm. The passengers also cooperate through this stress, such as when they must amputate the leg of one of their boatmates, the injured Gus Smith. The inhabitants attempt to organize their rations, set a course for Bermuda, and coexist as they try to survive. Willi is revealed to be the U-boat captain, rather than a mere crewman. She jumps off the boat in Porter's mink coat, while the other passengers sleep. Higley, a young British woman whose infant child is dead when they are pulled from the water, must be tied down to stop her from hurting herself. Porter is thrilled at having photographed the battle, but her photo camera is the first of her many possessions to be lost overboard in a succession of incidents. However, the others object, with radioman Stanley, wealthy industrialist Rittenhouse and columnist Connie Porter succeeding in arguing that he be allowed to stay. During an animated debate, engine room crewman Kovac demands the German be thrown out to drown. Willi, a German survivor, is pulled aboard. Įight British and American civilians, service members and United States Merchant Mariners are stuck in a lifeboat after their ship and a German U-boat sink each other in combat. Though highly controversial in its time for what many interpreted as its sympathetic depiction of a German U-boat captain, Lifeboat is now viewed more favorably and has been listed by several modern critics as one of Hitchcock's more underrated films. Bankhead won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress. The film received three Oscar nominations for Best Director, Best Original Story and Best Cinematography – Black and White. The first in Hitchcock's "limited-setting" films, the others being Rope (1948), Dial M for Murder and Rear Window (both 1954), it is the only film Hitchcock made for 20th Century Fox. The film is set entirely on a lifeboat launched from a passenger vessel torpedoed and sunk by a Nazi U-boat. It stars Tallulah Bankhead and William Bendix, alongside Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson, John Hodiak, Henry Hull, Heather Angel, Hume Cronyn and Canada Lee. Lifeboat is a 1944 American survival film directed by Alfred Hitchcock from a story by John Steinbeck.
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