Lifeboat (1944)

It's good to be king, and it's good to be an auteur. There's a small catch, though, in that if you are an auteur, you might make Lifeboat, and it won't get all the love it deserves because hey, you also made about a half-dozen towering masterpieces, and this film is merely very, very good.

For this World War II maritime suspenser, Alfred Hitchcock wanted…