Lifeboat (Hitchcock, 1944): Castle Cinema, 2pm
This is a 16mm presentation from the Cine-Real film club.
Chicago Reader review:
Alfred Hitchcock’s 1944 film was one of the sound cinema’s first
experiments with minimalism: the entire picture takes place in a small
boat, as the survivors of a torpedoed luxury liner find themselves cast
adrift with the captain of the U-boat that sank them. The drama is
developed without recourse to flashbacks or cutaways, and it is done
cleverly and stylishly, though it lacks Hitchcock’s usual depth. At
times, the film seems on the verge of rising above its frankly
propagandistic intentions, but it never really confronts the Darwinian
themes built into the material. With Tallulah Bankhead, John Hodiak,
Walter Slezak, and William Bendix; script by Jo Swerling, from an
original story by John Steinbeck.
Dave Kehr
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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