Conference bookie::movies

    Yes, the movie is "Lifeboat."  It was made in the 40's, or maybe
    early 50's.  William Bendix is in it.  And Hitchcock directed it.
    You should be able to find it on video.
    
    Ingrid (a Hitchcock fan)

    Never saw the movie, but do know this piece of trivia:
    
    If the whole movie took place on a boat, how did Hitch make his cameo?
    
    Answer: a photo in a newspaper.
    
    Linda (another Hitchcock fan)

    Basenote title changed by moderator (to fix spelling and add movie
    name).
    
    -b

Lifeboat?  Really?
Isn't that the one where one of the  people IN the lifeboat caused the sinking
of the ship they were escaping from, and was feared to be sabotaging the 
lifeboat too?  Aren't there "Ten Little Indians" aspects to the story
as characters are ...hmmm... 'removed?'

The descriptions of the torches and such and the "ugly person"
make it sound more like 1) a Twilight Zone episode, or 2) an episode
of Hitchcock's TV series.

- tom]

    I have seen Lifeboat and it is'n that movie. I have discussed this with
    other Hitchcock fans and looked through a book where all movies are
    explained and with a few pictures from every movie. The book also told
    me that H made a lot of shorter TV episodes, but they wheren't
    mentioned in that book, so it is probably one of them. I shall try to
    find out any of the actors in the movie and add it to the conference.
    
    AndersR Olsson @ORE

    
          <<< Note 597.0 by 51678::OLSSON_A "AndersR Olsson  @ORE" >>>
                  -< An Alfred Hitchcock Question / Lifeboat >-

    >>Is there anyone who can tell me the name of a Hitchcok movie i saw
    >>a few years ago.
    
    >>I remember that there was a boat in the fog with a few people and in
    >>the beginning you didn't see the boat, you just hear them. They are
    >>yelling for help to get some food but at the same time they are begging
    >>the people on the rescue boat not to point with their torches at them.
    
    >>The people in the boat starts to explain why they don't want to meet
    >>other people an the film goes back a few months in their life. 
    
    >>At the end the rescue people promise to give them food if they come
    >>near the rescue boat but when they is near enough one of them point a
    >>torch at them and you see an extremly ugly face.
    
    Sounds kind of like life at Digital these days......
    

    The setting sounds like Lifeboat, but the scenario described in the
    base note has nothing to do with the Hitchcock WWII film. In Lifeboat,
    a ship is torpedoed by a U-boat, and a cross-section of society 
    survive in a single boat. Much of the drama comes from the class
    tensions and attitudes among the characters. The U-boat was also
    destroyed in the battle, and a german survivor (Walter Slezak) is
    among the survivors. The plot follows the subtle ways the german
    attempts to get the others dependant on him, so he can direct the boat
    to a german supply ship.
    
    I do not recognize the rescuer/food scenario from any major Hitchcock
    film. He did some wartime short films, but they all had some kind of
    war related message. What was described sound more like something Orson
    Welles might have done.
    
    Steve H.

Talulah Bankhead had one of her best roles in the film. Hitchcock's "cameo"
in this film was one of his more amusing. A newspaper add advertising a weight
reducing scheme with Alfred in before and after poses.



Spoiler............























The scene at the end where all the other passengers kill and throw overboard
the German is one of the most chilling scenes in all of Hitchcock's films.
Even more than the shower scene in Psycho, which is more shocking than anytbing
else.


Randy