Lifeboat (movie)
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Lifeboat is a 1944 World War II movie, directed by Alfred Hitchcock from a story written by John Steinbeck. The whole movie takes place in a lifeboat.
A group of American and British citizens are stuck in a lifeboat after their ship is sunk by a Nazi U-boat. The German captain of the U-boat is in the lifeboat as well.
The movie starred Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson, John Hodiak, Henry Hull, Heather Angel, Hume Cronyn and Canada Lee.
Of all Hitchcock's films, this is perhaps the one in which we would least expect to see a Hitchcock cameo since the action takes place entirely on a lifeboat. However, in one scene, one of the characters can be seen reading a newspaper. In the newspaper, an advertisement for Reduco Obesity Slayer is visible which features before and after pictures of Hitchcock's world-famous profile. Hitchcock later said that he received letters shortly after the film was released asking where they could obtain this miraculous, though fictitious, dieting aid.
In 1993 the movie was remade as a science fiction TV movie titled Lifepod. Moving the action from a lifeboat to a spaceship's escape capsule, the remake starred Ron Silver, Robert Loggia and CCH Pounder. Silver also directed.