Survival

Rating: 8/10 (7 April 2014)

Lifeboat is another Alfred Hitchcock film made during the war and serves as a propaganda piece to stir up the allies.
After their ship is sunk by a German U boat, six people with different backgrounds are stranded together in a lifeboat.
Tallulah Bankhead is a photo-journalist who is tough as nails with some airs and graces. Some of the people in the lifeboat are crew members and others are passengers except for one person. Walter Slezak is a German sailor who ends up in the lifeboat who they take in but can he be trusted?
The film takes place entirely in the lifeboat and Hitchcock still manages to make his trademark cameo. The story turns as the other survivors rely on the German for navigation and even rowing the lifeboat whilst they bicker or play cards unsure where they are heading.
Bankhead is the anchor for this film, she is really terrific. Hume Cronyn as the kind hearted sailor provides good support and Slezak keeps you guessing as to whether he is an aid or a hindrance for quiet a while.