---
title: 'Lifeboat (1944)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Alfred Hitchcock'
released: '1944-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 96
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'War'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/lifeboat-1944'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037017/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Lifeboat (1944)

1944 · 96 min · Drama, War · United States


## Synopsis

Lifeboat is a 1944 American survival film directed by Alfred Hitchcock from a story by John Steinbeck. It stars Tallulah Bankhead and William Bendix, alongside Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson, John Hodiak, Henry Hull, Heather Angel, Hume Cronyn and Canada Lee. The film is set entirely on a lifeboat launched from a freighter torpedoed and sunk by a Nazi U-boat.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Alfred Hitchcock](https://cinepixo.com/people/alfred-hitchcock)
- **Screenplay:** [John Steinbeck](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-steinbeck), [Ben Hecht](https://cinepixo.com/people/ben-hecht), [Jo Swerling](https://cinepixo.com/people/jo-swerling)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Hugo Friedhofer](https://cinepixo.com/people/hugo-friedhofer)
- **Producer:** [Kenneth Macgowan](https://cinepixo.com/people/kenneth-macgowan)
- **Director of Photography:** [Glen MacWilliams](https://cinepixo.com/people/glen-macwilliams)
- **Editor:** [Dorothy Spencer](https://cinepixo.com/people/dorothy-spencer)

## Cast

- [Canada Lee](https://cinepixo.com/people/canada-lee)
- [Mary Anderson](https://cinepixo.com/people/mary-anderson)
- [Henry Hull](https://cinepixo.com/people/henry-hull)
- [Heather Angel](https://cinepixo.com/people/heather-angel)
- [William Bendix](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-bendix)
- [Tallulah Bankhead](https://cinepixo.com/people/tallulah-bankhead)
- [Walter Slezak](https://cinepixo.com/people/walter-slezak)
- [Alfred Hitchcock](https://cinepixo.com/people/alfred-hitchcock)
- [Hume Cronyn](https://cinepixo.com/people/hume-cronyn)
- [John Hodiak](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-hodiak)

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