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	Lifeboat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lifeboats for the North Sea include an electric heater for the engine oil, which is left on in cold weather.
		All lifeboats of this type generally have modern electronic devices such as radios and radar to help locate the party in distress and carry medical and food supplies for the survivors.
		The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (or RNLI) is one of the most famous independent group maintaining lifeboats around the coasts of the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, composed of volunteers, and paid for by voluntary donation - web-site at www.rnli.org.uk.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lifeboat (1270 words)

	Lifeboat (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lifeboat is a 1944 World War II movie, directed by Alfred Hitchcock from a story written by John Steinbeck.
		Of all Hitchcock's films, this is perhaps the one in which we would least expect to see a Hitchcock cameo since the action takes place entirely on a lifeboat.
		Moving the action from a lifeboat to a spaceship's escape capsule, the remake starred Ron Silver, Robert Loggia and CCH Pounder.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lifeboat_(movie) (355 words)

	Depicting History in Film
		Lifeboat, though based on a fictional story by John Steinbeck, can come under the label of a historical film because it captures the time period of when it was made. Still, there is the question of whether one can render history in film responsibly.
		Are these three films helping to illuminate the past or are they, instead, obscuring it and as a result potentially misleading the audience? These three films in different ways are all useful historical sources, but have inherent biases that need to be taken into account when interpreting these films.
		The fact that the film was created and financed by the Nazi party does not help the film to show the rally without any biases. For example, one of the main messages in the film was that of the Nazi party’s support of workers, which would have strongly appealed to Germans at that time.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /courses/rschwart/clio/student-papers/perkins2001.htm (1150 words)

	Tallulah Bankhead - Lifeboat
		Filming was quite an ordeal on the actors, who were continually pummeled with water and giant fans.
		The film received much criticism upon its release and many were outraged that the character of the German submarine captain (played by Walter Slezak) appeared smarter than the Americans.
		Hitchcock disagreed and insisted that the film showed that the German's actions were accomplished by deviousness and that the German was defeated when the Americans united against him.
	home.hiwaay.net /~oliver/tblifeboat.htm (399 words)

	Cline Library Assembly Hall Calendar - Tuesdays, October 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Films are free and open to the public.
		The mood of the film is immediately established by the posthumous narrator - a dead man floating face-down in a swimming pool.
		The major starring role in the film, an inspired casting choice, was held by legendary silent film diva Gloria Swanson, who "autobiographically" portrayed Norma Desmond - a deluded, tragic, ambitious actress whose career declined with the coming of the talkies.
	www.nau.edu /cline-cgi-bin/cal_make.pl?p1=MON20051004&wday=2 (836 words)

	Lifeboat Situations - Mises Institute
		In a lifeboat situation, indeed, we apparently have a war of all against all, and there seems at first to be no way to apply our theory of self-ownership or of property rights.
		After he is convicted, it would be the right of the lifeboat owner or the heir of the person tossed out to forgive Smith, to pardon him because of the unusual circumstances; but it would also be their right not to pardon and to proceed with the full force of their legal right to punish.
		A pragmatic point related to the rarity of the lifeboat case is that, as we know from economic science, a regime of property rights and the free-market economy would lead to a minimum of "lifeboat situations"â”a minimum of cases where more than one person is battling over a scarce resource for survival.
	www.mises.org /fullstory.aspx?Id=1628 (2139 words)

	Boston Rock Storybook - Lifeboat
		After we had hung out for a few weeks Skeg mentioned that Lifeboat were going on a tour of the South and Southeast.
		I shot thirty rolls of Super-8 film, we recreated as good American youngsters will, and almost every gig was surrounded by an event of some sort- a great party here, a meeting with some alien life form there, a friendship formed that would last for decades over there.
		Lifeboat made some fine recordings, but their live performances were what made me fall in love with the band.
	www.rockinboston.com /lifeboat.htm (1254 words)

	Lifeboat Movie: Lifeboat DVD is available from Bestprices.com
		Based on a story by John Steinbeck, LIFEBOAT tells of the desperate struggle for survival of a group of people whose boat was torpedoed by a German U-boat during the Second World War.
		LIFEBOAT is an unusual yet thrilling film from Alfred Hitchcock.
		LIFEBOAT is an intense thriller crafted around the psychological drama produced when eight unlikely companions are thrown together by drastic circumstance.
	www.bestprices.com /cgi-bin/vlink/024543172260IE (396 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| Tyne \| Sea alert as crew watch sexy film
		They then settled down to watch the film Crash on a TV which was next to the radio - not realising it was being broadcast over a 30-mile radius.
		A lifeboat from Berwick was dispatched to alert the crew to their mistake.
		He said although the film was on in the background, he was busy working on the boat at the time.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/tyne/4280806.stm (269 words)

	Lifeboat - Review - Stumped? - Stumped At the Video Store is a Magazine About Movies, DVD releases, actors, filmakers, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The chop and violent rage of the north Atlantic are well shown throughout the movie, and the graceful rising and falling of the boat in the waves is captured beautifully on celluloid in a technique that measures equally good through today's standards.
		Tallulah Bankhead is the leader of Hitchcock's ensemble cast, and she performs admirably, but annoyed me by somehow managing to put a "sweetheart", "darling", or "dear" at what seemed like the beginning and ending of every line she had.
		Lifeboat isn't a drama like Michael Mann's The Last of the Mohicans, or Wolfgang Peterson's Air Force One, with constant physical action, but an emotional and poignant look at the trying situation that these World War II survivors face.
	centerstage.net /stumped/Reviews/lifeboat.shtml (441 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: Lifeboat
		Lifeboat (1944) begins with two startling images: A smokestack on a large transatlantic steamer bellows coal-fl soot, only to tip over sideways and fall into the sea; amid the floating debris-field, a lifeboat contains a glamorous woman, smoking a cigarette with luggage at her side, perturbed that she has a run in her stocking.
		To be certain, Lifeboat is grim — the characters' predicament is underscored by a constant sense of loss and wearing away, as one by one things are sent overboard: a camera, a typewriter, food and water, an amputated leg, and eventually people.
		There are moments in the film when the transfer appears to display artifacts, but in fact this most likely is a result of the oil-and-water mist Hitchcock directed at his stars with giant fans (and they say he didn't like actors).
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/l/lifeboat.q.shtml (893 words)

	John Steinbeck - Publish Lifeboat - R A I N T A X I o n l i n e
		On board the lifeboat in the movie are a reporter, a union worker from Chicago, a millionaire, a seaman, a British radio operator, a nurse, a Negro steward, and an English woman with her dead baby.
		Lifeboat is about survival, but it is also a study of how society reacts when the enemy has become vulnerable.
		Lifeboat was written before Steinbeck went on to cover the war as a reporter in Europe.
	www.raintaxi.com /online/2002summer/lifeboat.shtml (2036 words)

	Lifeboat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Filmed at the end of World War II, it deals with the a group of British and American survivors of a torpeoded ship.
		They'll be quite a bit of anti-German sentiment cropping up later on, but when the film first begins, the camera discovers a large lifeboat, "manned" only by a sassy broad in a big fur coat, looking rather bored.
		Lifeboat therefore creates the formulaic cast list for every disaster movie since then - a set of people from "all walks of life", thrown together in tragedy, and having to work together to survive.
	www.dollsoup.co.uk /lifeboat.htm (740 words)

	Lifeboat Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		Filmed under grueling conditions in a tank on the 20th Century Fox lot, the movie opens with the torpedoed freighter disappearing beneath the waves.
		Floating amidst the debris and corpses is a lifeboat occupied by glamorous photojournalist Constance Porter (Tallulah Bankhead).
		Apparently, this subtlety was lost on Lifeboat's virulent critics, whose unfounded attacks on the film influenced Fox's Darryl F. Zanuck to backtrack on his support for the picture.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=760 (1040 words)

	Amazon.com: Lifeboat (Special Edition): DVD: Tallulah Bankhead,William Bendix,Walter Slezak,Mary Anderson,John ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Lifeboat was a play by John Steinback, in which, after a dramatic sea battle, a group of passengers get together on a lifeboat after the ocean liner they were travelling at gets sunk by a german U-boat (that also sunk).
		It is a notion that emerges exceptionally well in Lifeboat, where Hitchcock allows the audience to submerge themselves in a tale thick of psychological undercurrents that feeds on the fear spawned in the social and political world of the 1940s.
		Lifeboat, a legendary classic has endured through the years and still remains interesting and suspenseful to the viewers of today, my kids who normally hate fl and white movies enjoyed this one, they actually sat through the entire movie.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000A9QK7I?v=glance (2470 words)

	TMe: Lifeboat Film Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The 1944 film, Lifeboat, might easily be categorized as your generic war movie showing how Allied lives are at the mercy of Nazi Germany.
		One of the lifeboat’s occupants is the very man who caused their predicament: a German U-boat captain whose submarine torpedoed their vessel.
		The film is a superb character study on how individuals, despite their political beliefs, behave in a life and death situation.
	www.teako170.com /dial30.html (566 words)

	Lifeboat Mary Renda
		For every film, we can trace (more or less successfully depending on the range of available documentary evidence besides the film itself) a specific historical process by which the film was created (and, once created, interpreted by its publics, its audiences).
		When I refer to a film as an artifact, then, I am emphasizing the specific historical process by which that film was produced in a particular way, at a particular time, in a particular place.
		Thus, what a filmmaker is able to articulate about his or her intentions for a film will never encompass the full range of meanings suggested by that film, even if he or she is the sole creative force behind it.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /courses/rschwart/clio/renda_lifeboat2.htm (1736 words)

	filmcritic.com Movie Review: Lifeboat
		Lifeboat, then, is a rare instance (along with Foreign Correspondent and Saboteur, also from this period) in the 51-year directing career of the legendary suspense-master of socially conscious storytelling.
		As a polemic, Lifeboat is closer to John Ford's similarly themed and conceived Stagecoach (1939) than to any of the director's own movies.
		The lessons that Lifeboat's survivors ultimately learn, the stripping away of their class identities to work for the common good, all finally feels too morally on-the-nose.
	www.filmcritic.com /misc/emporium.nsf/60e74e041ca9cd6b8625626f0062219f/60251102ebd57fbd882570a2000e75f8?OpenDocument (768 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Lifeboat (REGION 1) (NTSC): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		While Alfred Hitchcock's 1944 film Lifeboat is not my favorite of his film, it certainly has a lot going for it, not the least of which is a bejeweled and glamorous Tallulah Bankhead playing a feisty war reporter, stranded on a life boat with a mismatched group of survivors.
		Lifeboat was an experimental film for Hitchcock; he reportedly wanted to make "order out of all the chaos of movie making," to see if he could really make a compelling movie with the action taking place in one location and the drama developed without recourse to flashbacks or cutaways.
		Lifeboat is all about the breaking down of the social veneers, that of class, education, and nationality, and it charts a group of people's descent into the vengeful darkness where none of them imagined they could ever go.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000A9QK7I (968 words)

	Rope: Intro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		He chose to film an entire movie in one apartment complex (Rear Window) and an entire movie on a boat (Lifeboat).
		The film is based on a play by Patrick Hamilton called "Rope's End", released in 1929 and based on a true story.
		The camera, as it moved within the film, actually crossed elements of the set, which the crew had to carefully manipulate to allow the camera to move freely.
	www.tdfilm.com /filmography/Rope/rope-intro.html (456 words)

	Lifeboat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		One of Hitchcock's most atypical films, Lifeboat presents the story of a small group of passengers confined to the title craft lost in the Atlantic after their ship has been torpedoed by a U-boat, which itself was sunk in the process.
		Lifeboat was a challenge for the director, and as with most of the challenges he accepted in his career, he met it with style and grace...
		Lifeboat also presents some challenges in being transferred to DVD: the film was shot entirely on a soundstage, using backdrops and rear-projection to provide the location.
	www.classicsondvd.com /lifeboat.htm (742 words)

	Encyclopedia Titanica Message Board: I got some INFORMATION on the LOST 1912movie
		She had been in Italy for filming, and was returning on the Titanic to New York, at her filming company's request.
		This film was greatly criticized at the time for "insensitivity", as it was released too soon after the actual event, and didn't do much for her career.
		Trent mentioned a Universal Film Company...if it is the same company as Universal Studios in universal City, I guess you could write to their archive department and see what they have...maybe someone kept a copy hidden away in their desk and over the course of several decades, it was discovered.
	www.encyclopedia-titanica.org /discus/messages/5672/71844.html?1065731755 (2761 words)

	Capital News 9 \| 24 Hour Local News \| Entertainment Weekly \| Lifeboat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A fl steward used to being treated as a second-class citizen, an in-shock mother whose baby didn't survive the attack, a wealthy old fuddy-duddy, and a kindly young Mary Ann type round out the cast, along with a wildcard ninth passenger, a German submarine crewman rescued from the U-Boat after it was downed in retaliation.
		Preachy and stilted at times, “Lifeboat” is still packed with Hitchcock's signature suspense as the German plots to steer the boat away from an Allied rescue and back into the hands of the Nazis.
		Bankhead may not be the kind of person you'd want to be trapped on a small little boat with for weeks, but she sure is a pistol to watch from dry land.
	www.capitalnews9.com /content/living/entertainment_weekly?ArID=156917 (369 words)

	DVD REVIEWS
		The film was made in the early 1970s, when Japanese film studios, desperately trying to lure potential moviegoers back into theaters, upped the ante on sex and violence considerably -- gangster pictures, and erotic films and even S&M pictures became the norm, yielding some pretty wild cinema.
		Nor does he ever lose the illusion of filming on the ocean, though it was shot entirely in the studio in water tanks, using rear projection.
		The DVD comes with a documentary that explains the origin of the film (it was Hitchcock's idea), its subsequent conversion into a short story (by John Steinbeck) and then into a screenplay, as well as detailing the studio politics, technical challenges and perplexingly obtuse critical reaction that Hitchcock faced.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/10/16/PKGM9DCVMC1.DTL&... (918 words)

	News 14 Carolina \| 24 Hour Local News \| TOP STORIES
		The cast is rounded out by a fl steward who is used to being treated as a second-class citizen, an in-shock mother whose baby didn't survive the attack, a wealthy old fuddy-duddy, a kindly young Mary Ann-type and a German who was rescued from the U-boat after it was downed in retaliation.
		Preachy and stilted at times, "Lifeboat" is still packed with Hitchcock's signature suspense as the German plots to steer the boat away from an Allied rescue and into the hands of the Nazis.
		Bankhead might not be the kind of person you'd want to be trapped with on a small little boat, but she sure is a pistol to watch from dry land.
	www.news14charlotte.com /content/top_stories?ArID=106532 (411 words)

	IGN: Lifeboat (Special Edition) Review
		Connie, a no-nonsense gal, proves be an unlikely caregiver, while John's constant consternation evolves into romantic frustration; similarly, Ritt's egalitarian perspective is put to the test when time comes to decide whether to save or abandon the German captain, who ultimately proves to be the most elusive, mysterious character of them all.
		Because this film is fairly obscure, even to those familiar with Hitchcock's canon, little effort was made to properly restore the film to its original luster, such as it was in 1944.
		Lifeboat is packaged in a standard Amray case with a paper insert.
	dvd.ign.com /articles/660/660643p1.html (659 words)

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