Lifeboat (1944)

Lifeboat

Lifeboat, directed by Alfred Hitchcock from a story by John Steinbeck, was released by Twentieth Century-Fox in January 1944. A merchant ship is torpedoed in the North Atlantic and its survivors, among them Tallulah Bankhead's journalist Constance "Connie" Porter, share a single boat with a German sailor, played by Walter Slezak, who turns out to be the U-boat's captain. Hitchcock shot the entire picture within the boat, and Bankhead's character is stripped of her possessions one by one as the drift lengthens. (IMDb)

Watches

Patek Philippe (unidentified model)

Worn by Tallulah Bankhead as Constance "Connie" Porter. Connie is the boat's timekeeper, which is how the watch enters the plot: the German asks her the time, and Sparks later realises he had a watch of his own and was fishing for their position. When someone suggests hers is running slow she snaps back "That's a Philippe Patek!", inverting the maker's name in a line the script keeps that way. It is a rare thing for its date, a luxury watch brand spoken aloud in a 1944 studio picture, and the watch belongs to the same inventory of possessions as the mink and the Cartier bracelet she eventually feeds to a fish. Montres de Luxe notes the brand mention without identifying a model, and the line she speaks names the maker and nothing more, so the brand is all the evidence supports. (Montres de Luxe; Springfield! Springfield!, film transcript)

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