Lifeboat

"During World War II, a small group of survivors is stranded in a lifeboat together after the ship they were traveling on is destroyed by a German U-boat."

Cast

Tallulah Bankhead

as Connie Porter

William Bendix

as Gus Smith

Walter Slezak

as Willi

Mary Anderson

as Alice MacKenzie

John Hodiak

as John Kovac

Henry Hull

as Charles J. Rittenhouse

Heather Angel

as Mrs. Higley

Hume Cronyn

as Stanley "Sparks" Garrett

Canada Lee

as Joe Spencer

William Yetter Jr.

as Young German Sailor (uncredited)

Crew

Jo Swerling

Screenplay

Alfred Hitchcock

Director

Glen MacWilliams

Director of Photography

Kenneth Macgowan

Producer

James Basevi

Art Direction

René Hubert

Costume Design

Thomas Little

Set Decoration

Dorothy Spencer

Editor

Maurice Ransford

Art Direction

Guy Pearce

Makeup Artist

Bernard Freericks

Sound

Fred Sersen

Visual Effects

Roger Heman Sr.

Sound

Emil Newman

Music Director

Queenie Leonard

Dialogue Coach

William Goetz

Executive Producer

Darryl F. Zanuck

Executive Producer

Saul Wurtzel

Assistant Director

Alfred Hitchcock

Idea

Ben Silvey

Unit Production Manager

Eugene Joseff

Other

Lyman Hallowell

Assistant Editor

Arthur C. Miller

Additional Director of Photography

Ben Hecht

Writer

R.L. Hough

Production Manager

Sam Benson

Wardrobe Master

Alfred Hitchcock

Producer

Harry Jackson

Camera Operator

James Curtis Havens

Special Effects

Edwin Hammeras

Special Effects

Paul Lockwood

Camera Operator

Frank E. Hughes

Assistant Set Decoration

Eugen Sharin

Dialogue Coach

Hugo Friedhofer

Original Music Composer

John Steinbeck

Story