Hitchcock vs. Radio Part 8: Lifeboat

Lifeboat

• Screen Director's Playhouse (November 16, 1950): starring Tallulah Bankhead (reprised her film role), Jeff Chandler, Sheldon Leonard; hosted by Alfred Hitchcock.

This adaptation was broadcast the week after Screen Director's Playhouse had adapted Shadow of a Doubt. It's a fairly good adaptation, although I'm not quite sure about Sheldon Leonard in William Bendix's role. Leonard's voice is so distinctive and familiar from comedy programs that I find him distracting. It's interesting that this wartime film was adapted to radio more successfully than a similar film, Foreign Correspondent.