Legendary hard-living actress Tallulah Bankhead reprises her role as Constance 'Connie' Porter in Alfred Hitchcock's 1944 film Lifeboat for this NBC radio adaptation.
Introduced by Alfred Hitchcock.
July 1943: Connie is a glamorous foreign correspondent aboard a lifeboat alone in the middle of the Atlantic, after the freighter ship SS Argo was torpedoed by a Nazi submarine. She soon rescues John Kovak from the ship's engine room (Jeff Chandler) and sparks fly between the couple as they pick up other survivors — including a Nazi seaman from the enemy U-boat.
Presented by NBC's Screen Directors' Playhouse on November 16th 1950, the film's director Alfred Hitchcock briefly explains how he made the movie — based on a story by John Steinbeck.
Adapted for radio by Jack Ruben Announcer: Jimmy Wallington Produced by Howard Wiley and directed by Bill Cairn. First broadcast in the USA on NBC in 1950.
First broadcast: 26 Jul 2015 (b063jjxt) http://vk.com/wall-84750475_184