Lifeboat (1944)
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Reviews Counted:20
Fresh:19
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: LIFEBOAT is an intense thriller crafted around the psychological drama produced when eight unlikely companions are thrown together by drastic circumstance. The exceptional performances of its... [More]
Starring: Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak, John Hodiak
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Reviews for Lifeboat
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Hitchcock's answer to the perpetual film school dilemma of making a movie on a boat as one of a filmmaker's biggest challenges, is a textbook example of how it's done right. Full Review |
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"It's based on the story by John Steinbeck, who wanted to show the Nazis as single-minded brutes with no redeeming human qualities. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Only Hitchcock could pull off this compelling drama in such tight quarters!
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4/5 |
That old master of screen melodrama, Alfred Hitchcock, and Writer John Steinbeck have combined their distinctive talents in a tremendously provocative film. Full Review |
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It's a technical tour-de-force. Full Review |
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The characters are reasonably free of cliched personalities, so what happens between them is rarely predictable, and there are enough crises and tensions within the 96-minute running time to hold a viewer fully attentive. Full Review |
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Hitchcock's shifting sympathies guarantee our guilty involvement with the characters until he builds to a climax of intellectual and spiritual excitation. Full Review |
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boasts the filmmaker's trademark technical polish: His command over editing, framing, and optical effects deftly masters the challenges of a water-borne production Full Review |
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3/5 |
One of Hitchcock's best
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One of Hitchcock's most underrated efforts
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