Lifeboat (film)

Lifeboat is a 1944 film about several survivors of a torpedoed ship who find themselves in the same boat with one of the men who sank it.
 * Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Written by Jo Swerling, based on a novella by John Steinbeck.

Who goes Primitive first...A man...Or a woman...adrift in an open boat? (taglines)

Connie Porter

 * Dying together's even more personal than living together.
 * We're not like you! You're made of iron, we're just flesh and blood! Hungry and thirsty flesh and blood!

Willy

 * [to the delirious Gus] There's Rosie! She's waiting for you! [Willy pushes Gus overboard]

Charles D. 'Ritt' Rittenhouse

 * [seeing a bejewelled Connie in a fur coat as he enters the lifeboat] Connie! Did you come from the freighter or the Stork Club?

Gus Smith

 * My name is Schmidt, but I changed it to Smith. That's what I got against these guys more than anything else. They make me ashamed of the name I was born with. I got a lot of relatives in Germany. For all I know this guy may be one of them. I say throw him to the sharks!

Dialogue

 * Connie Porter: [speaking of the disaster] Reminds me of an air raid once that hit me in Chunking.
 * John Kovac: Reminds me of a slaughterhouse I once worked in in Chicago. Those Nazi buzzards — a tin fish ain't enough. They've got to shell us too!


 * Gus Smith: [referring to Willie] A guy can't help being a German if he's born a German, can he?
 * John Kovac: Neither can a snake help being a rattlesnake if he's born a rattlesnake! That don't make him a nightingale! Get him out of here!


 * John Kovac: As of now I'm skipper, and anybody who don't like it can get out and swim to Bermuda. What about that?
 * Gus Smith: I'll buy it.
 * Stanley 'Sparks' Garrett: Suits me. What about you, Miss?
 * Alice MacKenzie: I'm for it.
 * George 'Joe' Spencer: Yes, sir!
 * Charles D. 'Ritt' Rittenhouse: Well, if the rest agree.
 * Connie Porter: All right, Commissar, what's the course?


 * Willy: [fixing her diamond bracelet] Looks like bits of ice.
 * Connie Porter: I wish they were.
 * Willy: They're really nothing but a few pieces of carbon crystallized under high pressure at great heat.
 * Connie Porter: Quite so, if you want to be scientific about it.
 * Willy: I'm a great believer in science.
 * Connie Porter: Like tears, for instance. They're nothing but H2O with a trace of sodium chloride.

Taglines

 * Who goes Primitive first...A man...Or a woman...adrift in an open boat?
 * What happens when six men and three women are alone in an open boat?
 * Six men and three women — against the sea and each other.

Cast

 * Tallulah Bankhead - Constance "Connie" Porter
 * William Bendix - Gus Smith
 * Walter Slezak - Willi
 * Mary Anderson - Alice MacKenzie
 * John Hodiak - John Kovac
 * Henry Hull - Charles D. "Ritt" Rittenhouse
 * Heather Angel - Mrs. Higgins
 * Hume Cronyn - Stanley "Sparks" Garrett
 * Canada Lee - George "Joe" Spencer
 * William Yetter Jr. - German sailor