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Lifeboat review

Rated - 4.0 stars

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Lifeboat

Director Alfred Hitchcock
Genres Drama
Run time 96 mins Certificate PG

18th February 2008

A straightforward drama/thriller, a mix of survivors (although they all seem to know each other despite how big the ship must have been) gather on a lifeboat and try to work out the best way to survive untill they are rescued. Added to this mix is a survivor of the u-boat which bombed them, do they follow the Geneva convention and treat him fairly or treat him like the dastardly hun he no doubt is ? The story then builds up the relationships between the different passengers untill a tense finale. Well worked film with tight editing keeping the claustrophobia of the boat up high.

About the reviewer: itstinks

Titles rented: 696

Favourite actor: Dilip Kumar

Favourite director: Stanley Kubrick