Engrossing Character Piece

Rating: Null/10 (29 October 1998)

"Lifeboat," one of Hitchcock's more overlooked films, doesn't have the intricate plotting of his more famous films such as "Psycho" and "Strangers on a Train." Instead, this is a character piece, in which nine survivors of a shipwreck, including one of the Nazis whose torpedoes sunk the ship, are left on a lifeboat. While a film with one setting, nine characters and very little plot might sound boring, the personalities and motivations of the characters, particularly Willy the Nazi, are intriguing enough to make this a very engrossing film.