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Hitchcock's Lifeboat Cameo

Posted in Entertainment by Greg Ross on September 28th, 2005

In the film Lifeboat, the action is set entirely in a small boat. This left director Alfred Hitchcock momentarily at a loss how to make his traditional cameo appearance.

Finally, inspired by a recent diet, he hit on a solution — Hitchcock can be seen briefly in a newspaper advertisement for "Reduco, the Obesity Slayer."