Literature Film Quarterly (1976) - Adrift in Steinbeck's Lifeboat
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- article: Adrift in Steinbeck's Lifeboat
- author(s): Robert E. Morseberger
- journal: Literature Film Quarterly (1976)
- issue: volume 4, issue 4, page 325
- journal ISSN: 0090-4260
- publisher: Salisbury University
- Sloan's Alfred Hitchcock: A Filmography and Bibliography (1995) — page 421, #465
- keywords: Alfred Hitchcock, Canada Lee, Chicago, Illinois, Darryl F. Zanuck, Foreign Correspondent (1940), François Truffaut, Helen Scott, Henry Hull, Hume Cronyn, Jo Swerling, John Hodiak, John Steinbeck, Lewis Jacobs, Lifeboat (1944), Mary Anderson, Motion pictures, New York City, New York, Novels, Random House, Robert E. Morseberger, Tallulah Bankhead, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, Walter Slezak, William Bendix
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Abstract
The survivors are Connie Porter (Tallulah Bankhead), a wealthy and arrogant reporter; Rittenhouse (Henry Hull), a conservative millionaire; Gus (William Bendix), a seaman with an injured leg; Kovac the oiler (John Hodiak), an embittered member of the proletariat whom Connie calls a fellow traveler; Stanley Garrett, a British radio operator (Hume Cronyn); Alice MacKenzie, an American Red Cross nurse (Mary Anderson); Joe (Canada Lee), a Negro steward nicknamed Charcoal; an English woman with her dead baby; and the Nazi (Walter Slezak). Lifeboat is significant in its treatment of such recurring Steinbeck themes as group-man, the nature of leadership, the animality of people hypnotized by mass action, and the stripping away of civilized surfaces to reveal the primitive human.
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