Lifeboat Page #2

Synopsis: In the Atlantic during WWII, a ship and a German U-boat are involved in a battle and both are sunk. The survivors from the ship gather in one of the boats. They are from a variety of backgrounds: an international journalist, a rich businessman, the radio operator, a nurse, a steward, a sailor and an engineer with communist tendencies. Trouble starts when they pull a man out of the water who turns out to be from the U-boat.
Genre: Drama, War
Director(s): Alfred Hitchcock
Production: 20th Century Fox
  Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 2 wins.
 
IMDB:
7.8
Rotten Tomatoes:
91%
NOT RATED
Year:
1944
97 min
1,447 Views


- No.

Here's the shrapnel. Thought you might

like to keep it as a souvenir.

Nah. My hide was

full of that stuff on the last trip.

- Hold it steady.

- oughta have my head examined.

This is the fourth time I've shipped out

since the war, and I ain't got no place yet.

Gee, I wish I could make

the complete round-trip just once.

- How does it look?

- t's a pretty deep cut.

It's leakin'. I ain't gonna wind up

with a gimpy leg, am I?

No. Not enough to interfere

with your jitterbugging.

- Jive, huh?

- Eh, tell her, Sparks.

Why he's the champion hoofer

of the merchant marines.

Tell her what I done

in Jersey City.

Listen, I copped two prizes

at Roseland one year...

and all the time, I'm suffering somethin'

terrible from double pneumonia.

I can out-jive the rest of those hepcats

even with a bum gam.

Everything under control?

Anything I can do?

You ain't got somethin'

to drink on ya?

- Sorry, son. Not a drop.

- have some brandy, darling.

Oh, boy. I could sure go

for some of that.

- 'll get my flask.

- No. In a case like this, the rule is to...

Come on.

We're among friends, ain't we?

- don't think it's advisable.

- Look. Just one slug. It'll pick me up.

- Make up your minds, darlings.

- Help.!

Help!

- Help.!

- t's Charcoal!

It's the steward.!

- There's a woman.

- And a baby.

Easy there.

Give me the baby.

Are you all right, Joe?

I got my feet wet

a little bit.

She was fightin' me

all the time in the water.

She tried to drown the baby

and herself with it.

Huh, it's all right,

sister. You're safe.

The baby's safe.

It's all right. The danger's over.

You're safe now.

Nothing to worry about.

Best let her have it.

We'll wait till she's asleep.

Here.

Hey. That's right.

Her name's Higley. She was

bombed out in Bristol.

One of them shell shock cases sent to

America. Her child was born in New York.

Said to me on the ship, "I'm going home

to show my husband the baby."

Here, darling.

You better put this on.

Hey, look. Another customer.

- Where'd he come from?

- s he a crew member?

- never saw him before.

- Not off our boat.

Danke schn.

He's very grateful to us

for having saved his life.

Regrets very much the U-boat

was compelled to sink our ship.

Ask him why they shelled our lifeboats.

- Captain's orders.

- f you ask me, he's the captain himself.

Ask him if he's the captain.

He says he's not a captain or

officer, just a crew member.

Well, crew member

or skipper, he's German.

A guy can't help bein' German

if he's born a German, can he?

Neither can a snake help being

a rattlesnake if he's born a rattlesnake.

That don't make him a nightingale.

Get him outta here.

Don't be silly, darling. He can't very well

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John Steinbeck

John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. (; February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American author. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception." He has been called "a giant of American letters," and many of his works are considered classics of Western literature.During his writing career, he authored 27 books, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories. He is widely known for the comic novels Tortilla Flat (1935) and Cannery Row (1945), the multi-generation epic East of Eden (1952), and the novellas Of Mice and Men (1937) and The Red Pony (1937). The Pulitzer Prize-winning The Grapes of Wrath (1939) is considered Steinbeck's masterpiece and part of the American literary canon. In the first 75 years after it was published, it sold 14 million copies.Most of Steinbeck's work is set in central California, particularly in the Salinas Valley and the California Coast Ranges region. His works frequently explored the themes of fate and injustice, especially as applied to downtrodden or everyman protagonists. more…

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