![]() ![]() This was her first film in Hollywood for a decade (excepting a cameo as herself in Stage Door Canteen), and marked probably her best screen performance. But where exactly is he leading them?Īmong a cast of mostly character actors, it's Bankhead who has the closest thing to a star part as the cynical journalist. He is the most experienced and competent, is physically strong and an authority figure, knows seamanship and navigation, and promises to take them to safety. Then a natural leader emerges among them, the German captain. The survivors are lost, confused and disorientated, uncertain of who should lead or where they should go. They represent a cross section of society rich, poor, young, old, black, white, male, female, even workers and capitalists, and it's not too much of a stretch to see an element of political allegory. The characters are stock types, but this is probably deliberate. The film raises questions of politics, if often obliquely, as well as the moral dilemmas and questions of trust that the survivors must face. But the film has a classic set up that's hard to resist - take a disparate group of shipwreck survivors in a desperate situation and put them together with the man who sank them. Lifeboat is based on an unlikely premise and there is rather more talking, singing and flute playing that you might expect from a group of people with barely a drop to drink. When the German submarine captain emerges as the most competent leader, the group have to decide whether to trust him and his navigating, which is allegedly designed to take them to Bermuda. The survivors have to deal with the elements, the lack of supplies and DIY amputations, while in the background Hodiak and Bankhead develop a sexually charged love-hate relationship across the class divide. He also has his own supply of water and a concealed compass. Although he initially pretends to be an ordinary seaman, the other survivors eventually discover that he was in fact the submarine's captain. There are also four crewmen from the sunken ship – William Bendix, John Hodiak, Canada Lee and Hume Cronyn (oddly cast as an English sailor).Īs the U-boat was itself also sunk, one of the crew members (Walter Slezak) also finds his way into the boat. Wine sauce with shallots, mushrooms and garlic.The survivors include an unsympathetic high society journalist (Tallulah Bankhead), a millionaire industrialist (Henry Hull), a nurse (Mary Anderson), and an evacuee mother (Heather Angel) who is still carrying her dead baby. And what do you think the ArgyllsĪte in Aden. Relatively under control, and that it is the RAF who now suffer the It is well known that we now have the problem Officer I abhor the implication that the Royal Navy is a haven forĬannibalism. Voice Over: Dear Sir, I am glad to hear that your studioĪudience disapproves of the last skit as strongly as I. Sailor #1: Waitress! (a waitress walks in) We'veĭecided now, we're going to have leg of Hodges. Sailor #3: And we can start off with the avocados. Sailor #4: And we'll finish off with the peaches. And we make some stockįrom the Captain, and then we'll have Johnson cold for supper. Sailor #5: I wish you'd all stop bickering and eat me. Sailor #3: That depends how we kill him, sir. Sailor #2: What's the matter with Johnson, sir? Sailor #4: Oh nonsense, sir, you're starving ducking. Sailor #1:: No, no you go ahead, please, I won't. Sailor #4: Well that's settled then.everyone's gonna eat Sailor #3: I'd rather eat Johnson, sir! (points to Sailor #5: You didn't eat the leg, Thompson. I'm.done for, I've.got a gamy leg and I'm going fast I'll never Sailor #2: We can't hold out much longer. Sailor #2: We've just got to keep hoping. Sailor #5: We're done for, we're done for! Sailor #2: We can't go on much longer, sir. Sailor #2: (aside, to 3) Did you think I destroyed I didn't think I destroyed the atmosphere. ![]() Long has it been in the lifeboat? You've destroyed the atmosphere Sailor #2: That's a rather personal question, sir. Monty Python Scripts Lifeboat (Cannibalism) The cast: SAILOR #1 Michael Palin SAILOR #2 Graham Chapman SAILOR #3 Eric Idle SAILOR #4 Terry Jones SAILOR #5 John Cleese The sketch: Sound Files Holy Grail Scripts Meaning of Life Life of Brian Silly Links ☰ ![]()
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