Lifeboat

Screen Director's Playhouse, Stars, Toulula Bankhead, Jeff Chandler, Production, Lightboat, Director, Alfred Hitchcock. This is the Screen Director's Playhouse, the Thursday night feature on NBC's 5-show festival of comedy, music, mystery, and drama, brought to you five nights a week by the makers of Aniston, for Fast Relief from Pain of Headache, youritis and youralgia, and by RCA Victor, world leader in radio, first and recorded music,

first in television. Ladies and gentlemen, once again we are pleased to salute the Hollywood Screen Directors and to present for the first time on the air an hour-long radio performance of Lifeboat. May I now introduce tonight's guest director, the creator of such remarkable films as shadow of a doubt, spellbound, Rebecca, and of course, lifeboat, Mr. Alfred Hitchcock.

Thank you. But I think you should know that lifeboat is not what we call a director's picture. There are no tricksets, no camera tricks, in fact no tricks at all. When the director approaches such a picture, he offers up a little prayer and delivers himself wholly into the hands of his actors. Since they are very good actors, the result is just as you

should hear it now, as we present Lifeboat, starring Talula Banched in her original role of Connie and Jeff Chandler as COBAC. July 8, 1943. I am somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic, alone in the lifeboat. This As his constant supporter, conny to my friends, friends in New York, London, Paris, Rome, Berlin, Vienna, Prague, Warsaw, Tung King, and points east, north, west and south.

At the moment I am seated at my typewriter, reporting as a syndicated foreign correspondent, the demise of the freger, the SS Argo, to opeded only a few moments ago by an oxy submarine, and of which I am a late passenger.