Category: Thriller
All Genres: Thriller, War
Release Year: 1944
Country: USA
Runtime: 96
Rating: 7.7 (0)
Languages: English, German
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Sound: Mono
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Who goes Primitive first...A man...Or a woman...adrift in an open boat ?

What happens when six men and three women are alone in an open boat ?

Six men and three women - against the sea and each other.

Writing by: John Steinbeck - (story)
Jo Swerling - (screenplay)
Ben Hecht - uncredited

Produced by: Kenneth Macgowan - producer

Cast: Tallulah Bankhead - Constance Connie Porter
William Bendix - Gus Smith
Walter Slezak - Willy
Mary Anderson - Alice MacKenzie
John Hodiak - John Kovac
Henry Hull - Charles D. Ritt Rittenhouse
Heather Angel - Mrs.Higley
Hume Cronyn - Stanley Sparks Garrett
Canada Lee - George Joe Spencer
William Yetter Jr. - German Sailor (uncredited)

Music: Hugo Friedhofer
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Plot Outline: Several survivors of a torpedoed ship find themselves in the same boat with one of the men who sunk it.
Plot: 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.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
As the end credits roll, Professor Solomon is being pushed in a wheelchair by a nurse who happens to be the killer from the first movie!

Goofs: We know about 4 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Audio/visual unsynchronized: After the operation on Guss leg, the group is playing cards. The sound is the same audio from the card game earlier in the film. Ritt stays. Kovac takes three cards. You can see when Kovac supposedly says, "Three cards," his lips dont move at all.

Trivia: There are 15 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• Alfred Hitchcock called Ben Hecht in to read the final script and to rewrite the ending.
• Seasickness hit the entire cast at one point or another, and much of the cast caught pneumonia after constant exposure to cold water, Tallulah Bankhead having suffered twice from it. Hume Cronyn almost drowned in a storm scene when he got caught under a large metal water-activator, used for making waves. Joe Peterson, a lifeguard hired especially for the production, saved him in the nick of time. Hume Cronyn also suffered from cracked ribs during the course of filming.
• During filming, several of the crew members noted that actress Tallulah Bankhead was not wearing underwear. When advised of this situation, director Alfred Hitchcock observed, "I dont know if this is a matter for the costume department, makeup, or hairdressing."

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