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Campus + Community Film Series: Lifeboat
March 2, 2020, 7:15 PM
Free
In one of Alfred Hitchcock’s earliest films, based on a story by John Steinbeck, seven people with different personalities and backgrounds — an international journalist, a rich businessman, a radio operator, a nurse, a steward, a sailor, and an engineer with communist tendencies — are stranded together on a lifeboat in the Atlantic Ocean after their passenger freighter is sunk by a German U-boat. Trouble begins when a man they pulled out of the water turns out to be from the U-boat.
The film will be introduced by Colby Assistant Professor of History Arnout van der Meer.
(Unrated, 96 min., 1944)
This screening is presented in conjunction with the Colby Museum exhibition Hew Locke: Here’s the Thing, on view Feb. 20 through June 7. The exhibition focuses on maritime vectors of mercantilism, colonialism, post-colonialism, migration, and diaspora. This screening is free and open to all.