Best of the Big Screen
Alfred Hitchcock’s LIFEBOAT
Sunday, January 12th at 5 PM
with introduction by film historian Philip Harwood
$16 Public | $10 Members
Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece of a survival film stars Tallulah Bankhead and
William Bendix as passengers on a lifeboat, adrift at sea after their vessel is
torpedoed by a Nazi U-boat. As passengers are pulled from the wreckage, they
come across a German U-boat crewman, whose motivations maybe be more sinister
than they originally appear. While lesser known than many of his other
films, Lifeboat is a master stroke of Hitchcockian tension and
attention to detail, and is an important forebear to his single-location
classics like Dial M for Murder and Rear Window. (1944,
97 mins)

