layout: post status: publish published: true title: “Hitch #32 - Lifeboat (1944)” imgurl: author: display_name: Andy login: admin email: andy@grange85.co.uk author_login: admin author_email: andy@grange85.co.uk date: ‘2021-02-12’ categories:

and then just before xmas Film 4 showed Lifeboat … so we watched it.

Lifeboat (1944)

Lifeboat is of course famously the one where…

It’s a pretty good character piece - and has a weird but satisfying balance of light and dark. Some of the characters are a little carelessly used and one-dimensional but for the most part it works pretty well. Tallulah Bankhead though does most of the heavy lifting - and does it without breaking a sweat.

I’ve no idea if the Go-Betweens album Tallulah is named after Ms Bankhead - but I’m not sure I can think of anyone else it would be named after. So… Tallulah took a shower for an hour, and walked down the street feeling beautiful and clean…

Source: Film 4
Rating: 6/10
Hitchcock Zone: Lifeboat (1944)

Hitch's cameo - Lifeboat (1944)