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Dying together's even more personal than living together., Juil 23 2006
What would you do if you were stuck in a lifeboat with a hodgepodge of people and limited supplies? Does this sound like one of those corporate games? Well watch this movie and see how close you come to this fascinating Hitchcock (John Steinbeck story adapted by Jo Swerling) tale. Shot in monochrome adds to the hopeless feel.
It is WWII and a ship is torpedoed and its lifeboats are shot at. Before they went down they dispatched the dastardly U-Boat.
Now an only remaining Lifeboat is being loaded one at a time with a self-centered female journalist (Tallulah Bankhead), a boisterous businessman (Henry Hull), the radio ship's operator, a timid nurse, a ship's steward, a wounded sailor (William Bendix), and an overbearing engineer. We do not stop here the next to be pulled aboard does not speak English (Walter Slezak.)
As with all mixed people movies we slowly earn about everyone's background and a few secrets. As they start picking on each other we see that the only stable person seems to be the U-Boat passenger they picked up. If it were not for him people would have dies and or got lost. Besides doing most of the thinking for them he also has to do most of the rowing.
So why is everyone so upset?
Will they make it on their limited supplies and against the unpredictable sea?
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Dying together's even more personal than living together., Oct. 27 2005
What would you do if you were stuck in a lifeboat with a hodgepodge of people and limited supplies? Does this sound like one of those corporate games? Well watch this movie and see how close you come to this fascinating Hitchcock (John Steinbeck story adapted by Jo Swerling) tale. Shot in monochrome adds to the hopeless feel.
It is WWII and a ship is torpedoed and its lifeboats are shot at. Before they went down they dispatched the dastardly U-Boat.
Now an only remaining Lifeboat is being loaded one at a time with a self-centered female journalist (Tallulah Bankhead), a boisterous businessman (Henry Hull), the radio ship's operator, a timid nurse, a ship's steward, a wounded sailor (William Bendix), and an overbearing engineer. We do not stop here the next to be pulled aboard does not speak English (Walter Slezak.)
As with all mixed people movies we slowly earn about everyone's background and a few secrets. As they start picking on each other we see that the only stable person seems to be the U-Boat passenger they picked up. If it were not for him people would have dies and or got lost. Besides doing most of the thinking for them he also has to do most of the rowing.
So why is everyone so upset?
Will they make it on their limited supplies and against the unpredictable sea?
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BANKHEAD -- HITCHCOCK, Mai 2 2004
Tallulah Bankhead was one of the 20th century's best actresses, taking over from Ethel Barrymore as the Toast of Broadway and the London stage. She made few films, and this is her best role. (For a very long time the joke was that Bankhead's stage roles were taken over by and became film hits for Bette Davis. Certainly that's true with Hellman's THE LITTLE FOXES.) Here, one has the opportunity to observe how an actress of supreme talent, handles a role in which everything is shown; in which practically nothing can be hidden. Every would-be actress ought to study not only what she does, but more importantly, what she doesn't do, for as a stage acress par excellence all through her younger years, some movie people thought her too big for the screen. Probably she wasn't, but simply needed a good director. Here, she got the best in the business, and the results show.Hitchcock was fascinated with women, with actresses, and particularly beautiful ones. And, if Connie's beauty here, is not young, and fresh, it is nevertheless, compelling. She is like a thoroughbred mare among mules and cab nags in an auction pen of chance. She stands out because of her breeding. She has lines. Her costume? A white silk blouse, good nylons, a full-length mink coat, and a diamond bracelet. And, of course, that wonderful mane of hair. If you study Hitchcock, it would make a wonderful double bill to see LIFEBOAT and STAGE FRIGHT close together. Here, he studies Bankhead; in STAGEFRIGHT he studies Dietrich; two fair-haired actresses of wildly differing personal style, but of exceptional power and interest. And, what they have in common and what both display in these two films, is their unusual, and unusually expressive voices. Bankhead was a famous radio actress for many years, as well as a stage star. Dietrich too was a radio actress, and all her life was a singer and recording artist. The trick in working with an artist with an exceptional voice, is to carefully trim and arrange the dialogue in such a way as best to show off the voice's characteristics. Admirers of Lesbian Chic might want to imagine what Ann Sheridan, or Barbara Stanwick, Rosalind Russell, Ruth Hussey or Lizabeth Scott or any one of a number of others might have done with this "Contralto" role: You know, the wise-cracking, hard boiled newspaper dame. The role is a Type, very popular during the 30's, and with a lesser actress and a lesser director, we might have gotten a good movie out of the material, but not a black-and-white masterpiece, like this one. After all, what if CASABLANCA had been cast with Ronald Raegan and Heddy Lamarr? You can watch this movie over and over. A director's tour de force, the trick, I think, is to watch for Hitchcock's cutting sequences; the way he manipulated the editing around the actors' speeches within the episodes. Extremely clever. So good, the seams are nearly invisible. Its a great propaganda movie, but of an unusual kind; far subtler than most. Its a great Camp, or G/L movie, but again, far subtler than most. Its a great Murder movie too, etc., etc...
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Great., Avril 11 2004
'Lifeboat' is a great film by the late Alfred Hitchcock. He is really truly a master of filmmaking and very few directors could make such a fantastic story from such a limited setting. Not many people know of the film, but one should definately check it out.
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Hitchcock in a Tank?, Mars 7 2004
A very nice ensemble cast delivers the claustrophobia in this
"Lifeboat"Heather Angel and Henry Hull always seem to be least recognized in this drama although thw whole cast is seemless . Bill Bendix could walways play comedy or drama with equal terms.
I think a Dick Cavett story on Bankhead and Chico Marx may be in order. " Chico said " I want to ... You" and Bankhead , always the wit said " and so you shall young man" ! Slezak on the other hand was always an actor who used his rubber face to great effect. Watch out for waves and few script flaws but stay dry !
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From Another World, Oct. 3 2003
To those only acquainted with the later Hitchcock work of the 50's on, this little gem is a new exposure and an education. A case could almost be made that this film was made for the Germans! Certainly, Slezak's Nazi captain was the most sane and rational of the film's characters. The histrionics of some of the other members, particularly Hodiak's bigotry, only confirm this observation. However, Ms. Bankhead's part is the central one, and she plays this for all it is worth. It is only a short while after the beginning of this film that the concept that it is made on only one movie set recedes. As with a one-act play, with the proper cast one set is all that's necessary. Of course, as with so many classic films, it's impossible to visualize any modern actors capable of duplicating these performances. I look forward to purchasing this film on DVD when available.
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A great drama!, Déc 31 2002
Par Un client
This movie is a great drama. It has wonderful actors and a good
setting. It also has a mystery. This movie is a movie that you should see.
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A little boring, but good, Mars 15 2002
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Hitchcock isn't at his best though this film is a classic. Tallulah Bankhead plays a woman who survived with 6 other people when the ship they were on was destroyed by a German ship. Soon, another man comes aboard. Walter Slezak plays the man who's really a German spy rowing them back to the Germans. The directing is superb, but somehow filming 8 people on board a boat for the whole movie gets a little boring. All in all it's a classic but it is boring in some places.
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Classic Hitch, Classic Cast, Oct. 18 2001
Talullah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak and Hume Cronyn shine in this Hitchcock classic. Cronyn was on Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show years ago and told a story of how they filmed the movie on a soundstage, with the lifeboat suspended several feet in the air. The cast had to climb a ladder each time they had to get in the boat. It soon became apparent to everyone that Ms. Bankhead did NOT wear underwear. Cronyn and Hitchcock were standing at the bottom of the ladder as Bankhead climbed up. Cronyn says, "Maybe you should call wardrobe." Hitch looks up and says "Perhaps I should call the hairstylist". :)
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Incredible Story!, Mai 23 2001
This is an incredible story about the ordeal of a group of survivors of a torpedoed ship. The acting by Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, and Hume Cronyn is marvelous. This is one of my all-time favorite movies, right up there with Casablanca.--Diana Dell, author, "A Saigon Party: And Other Vietnam War Short Stories."
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