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Mystery Theater: Lifeboat: Tallulah Bankhead

Lifeboat: Tallulah Bankhead

26/07/2015

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Mystery Theater, Lifeboat: Tallulah Bankhead

July 1943: Survivors are adrift in the Atlantic. Stars Tallulah Bankhead.

July 1943: Survivors are adrift in the Atlantic. Stars Tallulah Bankhead. A Screen Directors Playhouse production for NBC radio.

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.

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