Review of Lifeboat (1944) by Dan Callahan for Slant Magazine — 23 May 1991
Lifeboat is actually much more complicated than it first appears. Its emphasis on moral debates in dialogue can seem a little dry, but Hitchcock’s shifting sympathies guarantee our guilty involvement with the characters until he builds to a climax of intellectual and spiritual excitation.
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This review of Lifeboat (1944) was written by Dan Callahan and published by Slant Magazine on 23 May 1991.
Lifeboat has generally received very positive reviews.
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