a merchant ship be torpedoed and sunk by the german and leave only a handful of survivor in the process . find a lifeboat to share and the survivor be throw into conflict when one of the survivor turn out to be the captain of the u boat that sink their ship . lifeboat be a truly fine alfred hitchcock picture and it a little undervalued and and most probably under see due to not get a worthy dvd transfer until the new millennium . adapt from a john steinbeck story and lifeboat find hitchcock experiment with a single set picture that be awash with propaganda and contain a cast that be across the bow and both endear and totally interesting . really tho and it with the moral poser and quandary heart that lifeboat become a great picture and different class and oddly assorted persona be force to survive a one unit and but invariably a fly in the ointment could turn out to be a catalyst of sort and not only for this group possible survival and but in mental fortitude and their respective capability under duress . very interesting film from the maestro director and with tallulah bankhead and willian bendix and john hodiak and walter slezak turn in very enjoyable performance . lifeboat be unusual in the sense of hitchcock other well know picture and but it definitely find him very much on form and very much lay down a marker for the genius that be to come . positive .