Lifeboat = The Movie

LIFEBOAT has to be one of the most feminist films every made. The army nurse, fresh from an affair with a married man, who wastes no time making a new conquest, supervises an amputation and leads a murderous mob against a Nazi, is the *nice* girl! She may have been second fiddle to Captain Tallulah Bankhead but she was as brave and worthy a seafarer as any man. Mary Anderson, who played Nurse Alice MacKenzie, was the last surviving member of the crew. She died today at 96.



Storyline
In the Atlantic during WWII, a ship and a German U-boat are involved in a battle and both are sunk. The survivors from the ship gather in one of the boats. They are from a variety of backgrounds: an international journalist, a rich businessman, the radio operator, a nurse, a steward, a sailor and an engineer with communist tendencies. Trouble starts when they pull a man out of the water who turns out to be from the U-boat.

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