Tattered Cover FREE Classic: Lifeboat

USA, 1944, 97 Minute Running Time
Genre/Subject: Drama

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A Nazi submarine sinks an American passenger ship in the Atlantic, and it too goes down. A few survivors, including the German commander, are left to figure things out in a single lifeboat for the entire length of the film. One of the survivors is Tallulah Bankhead – imagine that.

DIRECTOR: Alfred Hitchcock
Principal Cast: Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson, John Hodiak, Henry Hull, Heather Angel, Hume Cronyn, Canada Lee, William Yetter Jr., John Steinbeck