Lifeboat Page #3

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


get off in the middle of the ocean, can he?

- Throw him off.

- Have you gone out of your mind?

- Throw the Nazi buzzard overboard!

- That's out of the question!

- t's against the law.

- Whose law? We're on our own. We can make our own law!

Now, just a minute.

He was acting under orders.

Our freighter was an enemy ship.

After all, we're at war!

Is that woman at war?

Is her baby at war?

And listen, how come

you know the lingo so well?

How come when I climbed into this

life boat you were the only one in it...

dressed up like you knew

you were going someplace?

I was going someplace.

I was going into a lifeboat.

What is this?

Are you insinuating?

- You seem pretty anxious to stand up for your friend here.

- What do you mean, my friend?

Now, children,

let's keep our shirts on.

I haven't got a shirt

or a mink coat either.

Oh, I get it.

A fellow traveler.

I thought the Comintern was dissolved.

Now, we're all sort of fellow travelers, in

a mighty small boat, on a mighty big ocean.

And the more we quarrel and criticize

and misunderstand each other...

the bigger the ocean gets,

and the smaller the boat.

The boat's too small

for me and this German.

Me, I'm perfectly willing to abide

by the decision of the majority.

That's the American way.

If we harm this man, we are guilty

of the same tactics you hate him for.

On the other hand, if we treat him

with kindness and consideration...

we might be able to convert him

to our way of thinking.

That's the, uh...

That's the Christian way.

Okay. Now, me, I'm American too.

I was born one in Chicago.

But my people are from Czechoslovakia.

Ever hear of that place?

I say let's throw him overboard

and watch him drown.

When he goes down, I'll dance a jig

like Hitler did when France went down.

Me, too.

Just for the record,

I'm an American, myself.

I'm in a kind of a spot.

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.

No, Gus. I don't say it wouldn't be a pleasure,

mind you, but we haven't got the right.

The right?

What do you mean the right?

Well, he's a prisoner of war.

Got to be treated as such.

The way it's done is to hang on

to him till we're picked up...

then turn him over

to proper authorities.

Till such time, we represent

the authorities. That's clear, isn't it?

- You see what I mean, miss?

- don't understand any of it.

I don't understand people hurting

each other and killing each other.

I just don't understand it.

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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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