Based on an unpublished novella by John Steinbeck (written on commission expressly to provide treatment material for Hitchcock's screen scenario), Lifeboat found the Master of Suspense navigating a course of maximal tension ? in the most minimal of settings ? with a consistently inventive, beautifully paced drama that would foreshadow the single-set experiments of Rope and Dial M for Murder. After a Nazi torpedo reduces an ocean liner to wooden splinters and scorched personal effects, the survivors of the attack pull themselves aboard a drifting lifeboat in the hope of eventual rescue. But the motivations of the German submarine captain (played by Walter Slezak) on the eponymous craft might extend beyond mere survival... With a cast including Shadow of a Doubt veteran Hume Cronyn and the extraordinary, irrepressible Tallulah Bankhead, this 'picture of characters', as François Truffaut aptly termed the film, oscillates dazzlingly between comic repartée and white-knuckle suspense ? a perfect example of 'the Hitchcock touch'.
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Lifeboat - Steelbook Edition available on November 03 2023 from TheHut for 20.63
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Lifeboat Masters (Ltd Edition Dual Format Steelbook) (Blu-ray) available on March 29 2015 from Base for 14.19
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EAN bar code 5060000700763 ξ1 registered November 03 2023
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EAN bar code 5060000700763 ξ2 registered September 27 2014
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Product category is BLURAY - Blu-Ray - Thriller Book
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