Confirms I never want to be trapped in a lifeboat.

Rating: 8/10 (24 November 2012)

A colleague from a very long while ago, in a workplace far, far away, first told me about this early Hitchcock (1944) about survivors of a U-Boat attack adrift in a longboat, waiting for rescuers that may never come. The ingredients here are simple and bloody effective. A confined space, limited resources, a diverse cohort with limited patience and energy, a bucket load of prejudices and lashings of class mentality. This slow burner is hammy by modern standards but it's easy to see that it would have ruffled stuffy feathers at the time - particularly the treatment of oh now wait, that'd be a spoiler :| Track it down and enjoy.