Lifeboat (1944)
Directed by Alfred
Hitchcock this film stars Tallulah Banhead, William Bendix, Walter
Selzak and Mary Anderson. Following the sinking of a ship in the
Atlantic several Allied survivors are joined in a life boat by a
German from the U-boat that sank them.
Unlike many films of
the period this is not a pure propaganda piece and Hitchcock does a
decent job of balancing the moral dilemmas faced by the characters.
At the time the plot was somewhat controversial and while you can see
that on racial grounds the script is fairly weak the portrayal of the
German character is nicely nuanced. Setting the whole film
essentially in a lifeboat provides an interesting challenge for the
direction but obviously with a master at hand this works really well.
4/5
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