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Released
1944 · FILM

Lifeboat

A determined survivor must unite a desperate, divided crew on a lifeboat and outwit the looming threat of a German U‑boat to secure their chance of rescue.

“Six men and three women - against the sea, and each other!”

Directed by
Alfred Hitchcock
Written by
John Steinbeck, Jo Swerling
Color
Black & White
Runtime
96 min
DramaWar
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

During World War II, a small group of survivors becomes stranded together on a lifeboat after the ship they were traveling on is destroyed by a German U-boat.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 17

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Dorothy SpencerShot by Glen MacwilliamsScored by Hugo Friedhofer

Box Office

1944 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.6× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$1.0M

Budget$1.6M
Worldwide gross$1.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Das Rettungsbootde
  • Prigionieri dell'oceanoit

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