Lifeboat

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Lifeboat, 1944.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces LIfeboat, 1944.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Lifeboat, 1944.

Early on, players gathering after the liner is sunk by the U-Boat, nurse Mary Anderson, sailor William Bendix, oiler John Hodiak, magnate Henry Hull, journalist Tallulah Bankhead, crewman Hume Cronyn, then mother Heather Angel and German Walter Slezak, in Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat, 1944.

From director Alfred Hitchcock's witty opening, on the smokestack of a steamship, in the end revealed to be sinking, now finding Tallulah Bankhead (as journalist "Connie") then oiler Kovac (John Hodiak), in Lifeboat, 1944, from the written-for-hire novella by John Steinbeck.

John Hodiak, Henry Hull, Tallulah Bankhead and Hume Cronyn, pre-empted by Canada Lee, do what they can for the deceased infant, Bankhead and nurse Mary Anderson then helping the delirious mother Heather Angel, German Walter Slezak observing, in Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat, 1944.

Injured William Bendix learns from bi-lingual Tallulah Bankhead that the captured German Walter Slezak is qualified to amputate his leg, elected skipper John Hodiak joining in the ensuing discourse, in Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat, 1944.

Still unaware that their German captive surgeon and navigator (Walter Slezak) has a compass, Tallulah Bankhead, Henry Hull, Hume Cronyn, John Hodiak, nurse Mary Anderson and amputee William Bendix discuss their course, in Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat, 1944.