Ever wanted to be on "Survivor"? What about "Big Brother"? Confined spaces, limited daily needs, strangers with shady motives; not to mention any unforeseen hazards . What if there was no house, no tropical vegetation, no land--just a boat on the ocean miles from anything? Such is life on Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat (1944) as 10 survivors from a bombed out cargo/transport ship end up stranded on the rickety vessel facing far greater troubles. Several of the boat's passengers are wounded, several sparsely clothed, some ill-tempered as all deal with their own personal shock from the ship's destruction. The motley crew (7 men, 3 women) must fight against the current, the hours, and each other to survive; dealing as they can with whatever they have hoping for a rescue that may never find them.Hitchcock never fails to deliver in the suspense genre and this film is one his best combining the all-star talents of Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, and Hume Cronyn to create one of the best lost-at-sea movies of the 20th century.
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