Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat (1944) has come to DVD is a special edition, with a pair of special features -- one is a commentary by Drew Casper, who holds a professorial chair named in honor of Hitchcock and his wife Alma; the other is a documentary on the making of the movie. Casper spends a great deal of time telling us what we're actually seeing, and calls attention to himself a great deal, with his mannerisms and commentary -- it's like a performance piece for him, rather than a real analysis of the movie itself, although he does let some important information get through to us. Strangely enough, Casper is a lot more effective in the featurette The Making of Lifeboat: The Theater of War, in which he shares screentime with others, including the director's daughter -- it's a matter of less being more, and in this case a lot less is a lot more; it gives us the hard background on the movie. There's also a still-frame gallery that makes a good supplement to the featurette, though the most interesting still are used in the latter. The movie has been given a generous 20 chapters, and gets a razor-sharp full-screen (1.33-to-1) transfer. The sound is good and loud and detailed as well, and it is a pleasure to watch in this format, although it has always looked good on screen in this reviewer's memory.