Daniel Corleone's Movie Review of Lifeboat

Rating of
3/4

Lifeboat

Lifeboat review
Daniel Corleone - wrote on 04/01/13

The story of seven survivors namely columnist Connie Porter (Tallulah Bankhead), German Willi (Walter Slezak), Kovac (John Hodiak), a nurse, mother Alice, German-American Gus Smith (Bendix) and Rittenhouse (Hull) who ride on a boat whose ship was sunk. It may lack an appropriate soundtrack, realism (have they eaten well enough to survive?) and impressive sets but the screenplay, cinematography and performances deliver. So many quotable lines such as: "Dying together's even more personal than living together." "What are you gonna do with people like that?" and "Neither can a snake help being a rattlesnake if he's born a rattlesnake! That don't make him a nightingale!" The feels like 12 Angry Men at sea, people with various personalities trying ti decipher the best solutions. Lifeboat is Hithcock's well directed films which touches on distrust, sanity and survival.

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