Lifeboat (film) - Adaptations

Adaptations

NBC broadcast a one-hour radio adaptation of the film on Screen Directors Playhouse on November 16, 1950. Hitchcock directed, and Bankhead reprised her role from the film. The cast also featured Jeff Chandler and Sheldon Leonard.

In 1993, Lifeboat was remade as a science fiction TV movie under the title Lifepod. Moving the action from a lifeboat to a spaceship's escape capsule in the year 2169, the remake starred Ron Silver, who also directed, Robert Loggia and CCH Pounder. The film was aired on the Fox Broadcasting Company in the United States. The film credited Hitchcock and Harry Sylvester for the story.