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

Alfred Hitchcock

Director

Jo Swerling

Screenplay

Kenneth Macgowan

Producer

Glen MacWilliams

Director of Photography

Dorothy Spencer

Editor

James Basevi

Art Direction

Maurice Ransford

Art Direction

Thomas Little

Set Decoration

René Hubert

Costume Design

Guy Pearce

Makeup Artist

Bernard Freericks

Sound

Roger Heman Sr.

Sound

Fred Sersen

Visual Effects

Emil Newman

Music Director

Alfred Hitchcock

Idea

Ben Hecht

Writer

William Goetz

Executive Producer

Alfred Hitchcock

Producer

Darryl F. Zanuck

Executive Producer

Arthur C. Miller

Additional Director of Photography

R.L. Hough

Production Manager

Ben Silvey

Unit Production Manager

Saul Wurtzel

Assistant Director

Frank E. Hughes

Assistant Set Decoration

Edwin Hammeras

Special Effects

James Curtis Havens

Special Effects

Paul Lockwood

Camera Operator

Harry Jackson

Camera Operator

Sam Benson

Wardrobe Master

Eugene Joseff

Other

Lyman Hallowell

Assistant Editor

Queenie Leonard

Dialogue Coach

Eugen Sharin

Dialogue Coach

Hugo Friedhofer

Original Music Composer

John Steinbeck

Story