WHAT TO BINGE ON TV Stream On! Hitchcock’s underrated ‘Lifeboat’

I’ve been reading Hidden History of the Outer Banks by Sarah Downing and was reminded of Alfred Hitchcock’s film Lifeboat by Downing’s account of German raids during WWII on Allied shipping off our shores in “Submarine Alley,” where the Unterseeboote were in turn hunted by our armed forces.

LIFEBOAT

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“Are you Number Two Boat?”

Lifeboat , based on a story by John Steinbeck, takes place entirely on a lifeboat. Now that that’s out of the way, I must say that I, who fidget uncomfortably during movies in tight spaces, found nothing objectionable about it. The movie is mostly people speaking—but the writing contains universes: Who are we? Indiv

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