Like a painted boat upon a painted sea

Lifeboat

(1944)

Better than I found it the last time I saw it, which was on the big screen a few years ago. It's quite possible that a smaller screen is more appropriate to the odd mix of borderlessness and claustrophobia entailed by the trapped-on-a-boat-at-sea setting.

Fun to see (and hear) Tallulah Bankhead, in any case--this is the only film I've ever seen her in or am likely to. But you'd like to have Hitchcock be a little tougher about the central moral question of the film. Can I really have not noticed in two previous screenings that it's based on a short story by John Steinbeck?