Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
During World War II, a small group of survivors is stranded in a lifeboat together after the ship they were traveling on is destroyed by a German U-boat.
- sea
- journalist
- submarine
- boat
- world war ii
- survival
- black and white
- lifeboat
- radio operator
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- John Hodiak — John Kovac
- Henry Hull — Charles J. Rittenhouse
- Heather Angel — Mrs. Higley
- Hume Cronyn — Stanley "Sparks" Garrett
- Canada Lee — Joe Spencer
- William Yetter Jr. — Young German Sailor (uncredited)
- Directed
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Written
- Ben Hecht, John Steinbeck, Jo Swerling
Production
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 · 485 ratings
- Studio
- 20th Century Fox
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
