Lifeboat - UK Region B Blu-Ray/DVD (Steelbook)

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Lifeboat Blu-ray 

SteelBook / Masters of Cinema / Blu-ray + DVD

Eureka Entertainment | 1944 | 97 min | Rated BBFC: PG | Apr 23, 2012

Video
Codec: MPEG-4 AVC (35.00 Mbps)
Resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.37:1

Audio

English: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono (48kHz, 16-bit)

Subtitles

English SDH

Discs
Blu-ray Disc
Two-disc set (1 BD-50, 1 DVD)
DVD copy

Packaging
SteelBook, Inner print
Booklet

Playback
2K Blu-ray: Region B (locked)

Lifeboat (1944)
 

After their ship is sunk in the Atlantic by Germans, eight people are stranded in a lifeboat. Their problems are further compounded when they pick up a ninth passenger — the Nazi captain from the U-boat that torpedoed them. With powerful suspense and emotion, this legendary classic reveals the strengths and frailties of individuals under extraordinary duress.


Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writers: Jo Swerling, John Steinbeck
Starring: Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson, John Hodiak, Henry Hull
Producer: Kenneth Macgowan

SYNOPSIS: Based on an unpublished novella by John Steinbeck (written on commission expressly to provide treatment material for Hitchcock's screen scenario), Lifeboat found the Master of Suspense navigating a course of maximal tension in the most minimal of settings with a consistently inventive, beautifully paced drama that would foreshadow the single-set experiments of Rope and Dial M for Murder.

After a Nazi torpedo reduces an ocean liner to wooden splinters and scorched personal effects, the survivors of the attack pull themselves aboard a drifting lifeboat in the hope of eventual rescue. But the motivations of the German submarine captain (played by Walter Slezak) on the eponymous craft might extend beyond mere survival...

With a cast including Shadow of a Doubt veteran Hume Cronyn and the extraordinary, irrepressible Tallulah Bankhead, this "picture of characters", as François Truffaut aptly termed the film, oscillates dazzlingly between comic repartée and white-knuckle suspense a perfect example of "the Hitchcock touch".

The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present the Oscar-nominated Lifeboat in a Dual Format (Blu-ray and DVD) standard edition & limited edition Dual Format steelbook , accompanied by Hitchcock's two French-language wartime shorts, Bon voyage and Aventure malgache.

SPECIAL FEATURES:

• New high-definition master, officially licensed from Twentieth Century Fox
• New high-definition transfers of Hitchcock's little-seen French-language 1944 wartime films, Bon voyage (26 minutes) and Aventure malgache (31 minutes) officially licensed from the British Film Institute
• Optional English subtitles on all three films
• 20-minute documentary on the making of Lifeboat
• 12-minute excerpt from the legendary 1962 audio interviews between Hitchcock and François Truffaut, discussing Lifeboat and the wartime shorts
• PLUS: A 36-page booklet featuring archival imagery alongside new writing by critics Bill Krohn, Arthur Mas, and Martial Pisani

Lifeboat

• 1944
• Approved
• 1h 37m

DramaWar

Several survivors of a torpedoed merchant ship in World War II find themselves in the same lifeboat with one of the crew members of the U-boat that sank their ship.

• Director
  • Alfred Hitchcock
• Writers
  • John Steinbeck
  • Jo Swerling
  • Alfred Hitchcock
• Stars
  • Tallulah Bankhead
  • John Hodiak
  • Walter Slezak

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