Dead Men Don't Send Ham

It's the Only Murders episode 8 recap.

As the story begins to wrap itself up, the framing device and title for Episode 8 is Lifeboat by Alfred Hitchcock, presented to us by the voice of one Milton “Griffin Dunne” Dudenoff as a film about desperate characters in a tiny craft learning how far they’ll go to survive. I haven’t seen Lifeboat, but Wikipedia tells me it’s gained favor over the years after first being critiqued for its relatively nice portrayal of a German U-Boat captain — which, given that it came out in 1944 while World War II was still raging, I can understand. That is the very definition of “too soon.” This quote about it from Wiki is also amusing:

The film has no musical score during the narrative (apart from the singing of the U-boat captain and of Gus, accompanied by flute); the Fox studio orchestra was used only for the opening and closing credits. Hitchcock dismissed the idea of having music in a film about people stranded at sea by asking, "Where would the orchestra come from?", to which musical director …