Other than his two propaganda shorts for the British Ministry of Information, Aventure malgache and Bon Voyage (both 1944), Alfred Hitchcock never showed much interest in making war films. The closest he came to the genre was 1944's Lifeboat . Lifeboat was also one of Hitchcock's occasional experiments in making a film set in only one location. The film opens with a passenger ship being sunk in the Atlantic by a German U boat, after which an assortment of survivors gather together in the same lifeboat. From then on the film is set entirely in this one location, with only a limited cast of characters. The survivors include an unsympathetic high society journalist (Tallulah Bankhead), a millionaire industrialist (Henry Hull), a nurse (Mary Anderson), and an evacuee mother (Heather Angel) who is still carrying her dead baby. There are also four crewmen from the sunken ship – William Bendix, John Hodiak, Canada Lee and Hume Cronyn (oddly cast as an English sailor). As the U