"During World War II, a small group of survivors is stranded in a lifeboat together after the ship they were traveling on is destroyed by a German U-boat."
Tallulah Bankhead
as Connie Porter
William Bendix
as Gus Smith
Walter Slezak
as Willi
Mary Anderson
as Alice MacKenzie
John Hodiak
as John Kovac
Henry Hull
as Charles J. Rittenhouse
Heather Angel
as Mrs. Higley
Hume Cronyn
as Stanley "Sparks" Garrett
Canada Lee
as Joe Spencer
William Yetter Jr.
as Young German Sailor (uncredited)
Alfred Hitchcock
Director
Jo Swerling
Screenplay
Kenneth Macgowan
Producer
Glen MacWilliams
Director of Photography
Maurice Ransford
Art Direction
Thomas Little
Set Decoration
Dorothy Spencer
Editor
James Basevi
Guy Pearce
Makeup Artist
René Hubert
Costume Design
Bernard Freericks
Sound
Emil Newman
Music Director
Fred Sersen
Visual Effects
Roger Heman Sr.
Lyman Hallowell
Assistant Editor
William Goetz
Executive Producer
Saul Wurtzel
Assistant Director
Harry Jackson
Camera Operator
Darryl F. Zanuck
Paul Lockwood
Frank E. Hughes
Assistant Set Decoration
Eugen Sharin
Dialogue Coach
Queenie Leonard
Eugene Joseff
Other
Edwin Hammeras
Special Effects
Arthur C. Miller
Additional Director of Photography
Ben Hecht
Writer
James Curtis Havens
Idea
R.L. Hough
Production Manager
Ben Silvey
Unit Production Manager
Sam Benson
Wardrobe Master
Hugo Friedhofer
Original Music Composer
John Steinbeck
Story