A night of movies about ships in trouble is on hand tonight on TCM – a fleet of films that includes 1957’s Abandon Ship! (10 p.m. ET) and 1953’s Titanic (midnight ET). But the evening leads off with a really good one: Alfred Hitchcock’s 1944 Lifeboat, which takes place aboard the confining craft of its title. So how does Hitch work his trademark cameo appearance into this film? It’s worth tuning in just to find out… And you’ll stay for the rest, a gripping wartime character study starring Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix and Walter Slezak.