
Lifeboat
(Náufragos / 8 a la deriva)
(USA, 1944) [B/N, 97 m.].
Género: Drama bélico, Thriller / SGM, Propaganda aliada.
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Ficha técnica.
Dirección: Alfred Hitchcock.
Argumento: John Steinbeck (historia) / Alfred Hitchcock (idea).
Guión: Jo Swerling / Ben Hecht (no acreditado).
Fotografía: Glen MacWilliams / Arthur C. Miller (no acreditado) (B&W).
Música: Hugo Friedhofer.
Producción: Alfred Hitchcock, Kenneth Macgowan / William Goetz, Darryl F. Zanuck (no acreditados).
Productora: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
Premios:
- 1944: 3 nominaciones al Oscar: Mejor director, fotografía (B&N), historia
Sinopsis: Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, ocho supervivientes de un barco que ha sido torpedeado comparten un bote salvavidas. También recogerán a un nazi que está a punto de ahogarse, lo que provocará diversas tensiones entre los tripulantes. (FILMAFFINITY)
Un carguero aliado es torpedeado por un submarino alemán. Los ocho supervivientes tratan de mantenerse con vida a bordo de un bote salvavidas. Todo va bien hasta que recogen a un superviviente nazi, a punto de ahogarse, que procede del submarino que les ha hundido a ellos, que resultó alcanzado por una carga de profundidad. Debido a lo limitado del espacio, surgen tensiones entre los norteamericanos y el alemán.
En su afán de experimentación, Alfred Hitchcock consiguió desarrollar una historia de intriga en un escenario minúsculo, un bote salvavidas. Tras haberse consagrado en Hollywood procedente de Inglaterra con títulos como Rebeca, el maestro del suspense consiguió una de sus mejores películas. Incluso consigue hacer su célebre aparición, a pesar de que la acción sólo se desarrolla en el bote, porque sale en una página de periódico. Esta vez, Hitchcock tomó como base un relato del gran John Steinbeck, y también una de las más desconocidas. Sin embargo, el guión se aparta mucho del texto y, puesto que está filmada durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, se aprovechó para hacer contrapropaganda aliada. Tallulah Bankhead interpreta a la perfección a una joven rica, mientras que Walter Slezak está perfecto como el nazi recogido de las aguas (DeCine21).
- Náufragos (1944), El Séptimo Arte.
AMG SYNOPSIS: Seeking a creative challenge after several years' worth of fairly elaborate melodramas, director Alfred Hitchcock stages all of the action in Lifeboat in one tiny boat, adrift in the North Atlantic. The boat holds eight survivors of a Nazi torpedo attack: sophisticated magazine writer/photographer Constance Porter (Tallulah Bankhead), Communist seaman John Kovac (John Hodiak), nurse Alice MacKenzie (Mary Anderson), mild-mannered radio-operator Stan (Hume Cronyn), seriously wounded Brooklynese stoker Gus Smith (William Bendix), insufferable-capitalist Charles Rittenhouse (Henry Hull), black-steward George Spencer (Canada Lee) and half-mad passenger Mrs. Higgins (Heather Angel), who carries the body of her dead baby. This adroitly calculated cross-section of humanity is reduced by one when Mrs. Higgins kills herself. After a day or so of floating aimlessly about, the castaways pick up another passenger, Willy (Walter Slezak), who is a survivor from the German U-boat. At first everyone assumes that Willy cannot speak English, but when the necessity arises he reveals himself to be conversant in several languages and highly intelligent; in fact, he was the U-boat's captain. As the only one on board with any sense of seamanship, Willy steers a course to his mother ship, while the others resign themselves to being prisoners of war. After it becomes necessary to amputate Gus's leg, Willy decides that the burly stoker is excess weight; while the others sleep, he tosses Gus overboard, watching dispassionately as the poor man drowns. When the rest of the passengers discover what he's done, all of them (with one significant exception) violently gang up on Gus, and once more, the lifeboat drifts about sans navigation. -- Hal Erickson
AMG REVIEW: Lifeboat shows what the disaster films of the '70s and beyond might have been like if they were shorn of their special effects and forced to concentrate on character rather than activity -- and if they were directed by a true master, of course. Today's audiences, weaned on The Poseidon Adventure et al, might find the basic setup (toss in a handful of characters from every walk of life and force them to work together for their mutual survival) a little trite, but director Alfred Hitchcock and his (credited and uncredited) screenwriters take this premise and create a gripping, taut, suspenseful, and thoroughly captivating piece of cinema. Hitchcock, of course, deserves praise for keeping visually interesting a story with such a limited setting, but he deserves even greater credit for the marvelous work he pulls forth from his cast. In what is arguably the only film role that takes advantage of her unique talents, Tallulah Bankhead delivers a tour de force performance that is simply mesmerizing. Bankhead establishes the character clearly and precisely within the first few seconds -- a cynical, ironic, self-centered woman; she should be rather repulsive, but Bankhead makes her playful and appealing. She anchors the film but does not overshadow it, allowing the likes of John Hodiak, Hume Cronyn, and William Bendix to shine as well. There are moments in the film that don't quite work (usually when it crosses the line from war drama to war propaganda), but overall, Lifeboat is an engrossing, often thrilling and sometimes unsettling cinematic experience. -- Craig Butler
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Subtítulos (descarga directa): castellano / inglés / inglés HI.
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(2) Subs en inglés originales del BluRay Eureka MOC. Comprobados.
(*) Los subs en inglés de mkv están plagados de errores OCR.
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Lifeboat (Alfred Hitchcock, 1944) DVDRip VOSE + AE
Náufragos (Alfred Hitchcock, 1944) DVDRip Dual SE
NOTA: Esta película no la estoy compartiendo por falta de espacio, pero cuenta con fuentes de sobra.
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