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India Press Store - Lifeboat (Special Edition)
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List Price: $14.98
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Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Starring: Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson, John Hodiak
Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0024543172260
Format: Closed-captioned
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2005-10-18
Running Time: 96
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 1944-01-12
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Summary: Good, but not Great
Comment: Being a compulsive Hitchcock fan, I have a difficult time not giving every one of his films 5 stars, but I have some reservations with this film.
Obviously this is a propaganda film for the Allies in WWII. With this in mind, I realized there would be melodramatic, patriotic and democratic dialogue--and there was almost instantly. But my difficulty and problems lie mostly with my confusion about what I was supposed to feel. The message is not clear. I find this troubling since Hitchcock, being the master, was always able to control his audience without them ever knowing (remember during Psycho, when suddenly the car NOT going into the lake scared you, and you may have noticed later that your allegiance shifted, without a conscious decision, from Marion to Norman?).
Regardless of that, Tallulah Bankhead was marvelous, as was Canada Lee (even in his confined role of George "Joe" Spencer).
Great for WWII propaganda, but a little lacking in the Hitchcock--still a great movie. Recommended.
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Summary: Poor quality DVD not as advertised
Comment: The DVD would not work in any of my machines. When the DVD was returned I was credited a small amount of what I had paid for it.
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Summary: lifeboat
Comment: This is a time less classic. What a great movie! They don't make them like this any more
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Summary: Standing Room Only
Comment: I'd never heard of this movie until it was mentioned in a 2003 New York Times obituary about Elizabeth Fowler, who spent 10 days in a 26' lifeboat with 35 men after their ship was sunk in the Atlantic by a German U-boat in 1942, and then wrote a book about it; the book was called "Standing Room Only." Hitchcock's movie gave me a better idea of how small such a boat would be---and there are only _8_ people in Hitchcock's lifeboat, not 36!---and it was intriguing to watch the survivors become a community, judging by concensus what was acceptable behavior and what was not, with the stronger personalities leading and the others following. One thing Fowler mentioned at the end of her book was how the survivors became strangers to each other almost immediately upon setting foot on dry land again; that sense of community was lost as soon as their lives returned to "normal." Interesting!
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Summary: Underrated Hitchcock
Comment: Alfred Hitchcock's daring wartime drama rises to the technical challenge of being confined to a small set. Based on a story by John Steinbeck, "Lifeboat" (1944) remains among the director's most humanistic works with its emotional claustrophobia and incisive characterizations. Though a bit dialogue-heavy, the Master of Suspense creates a surprising amount of tension and intrigue throughout the film's 96-minute length. Tallulah Bankhead gives her finest screen performance, yet the entire cast is excellent. A minor classic in the Hitchcock canon.
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Nominated for three Academy Awards, Alfred Hitchcock's "absorbing brilliantly executed" (Hollywood Reporter) World War II drama, is a remarkable story of human survival. After their ship is sunk in the Atlantic by Germans, eight people are stranded in a lifeboat, among them a glamorous journalist (Tallulah Bankhead), a tough seaman (John Hodiak), a nurse (Mary Anderson) and an injured sailor (William Bendix). Their problems are further compounded when they pick up a ninth passenger - the Nazi captain from the U-boat that torpedoed them. With its powerful interplay of suspense and emotion, this legendary classic is a microcosm of humanity, revealing the subtleties of man's strengths and frailties under extraordinary duress.
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