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Director Alfred Hitchcock made cameo appearances in most of his films.

He once commented to François Truffaut – in Hitchcock / Truffaut ( Simon and Schuster, 1967 ) – that this particular cameo was difficult to achieve, due to the lack of passers-by in the film.

While having originally considered posing as a body floating past the lifeboat – which he later considered for his cameo in Frenzy – after his success with weight loss, Hitchcock decided to pose for " before " and " after " photos for an advertisement for a fictional weight-loss drug, " Reduco ", shown in a newspaper which was in the boat.

Supposedly, he later received hundreds of letters from people asking where they could buy Reduco, which he used again in Rope, where Hitchcock's profile and Reduco appear on a red neon sign.

The Lifeboat cameo appears 24 minutes into the film.