Moontide
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After a drunken binge on the San Pablo waterfront, longshoreman Bobo fears he may have killed a man. In his uncertainty, he takes a job on an isolated bait barge. That night, he rescues lovely Anna from a watery suicide attempt and installs her on the barge. But Tiny, Bobo's longtime pal and parasite, hopes to drive Anna away before domestic bliss tears Bobo away from him; the still unsolved murder may be just the wedge Tiny needs. There's fog on the water and evil brewing...... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Moontide:

Jean Gabin
Ida Lupino
Thomas Mitchell
Claude Rains
Jerome Cowan
Helene Reynolds

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After a drunken binge on the San Pablo waterfront, longshoreman Bobo fears he may have killed a man. In his uncertainty, he takes a job on an isolated bait barge. That night, he rescues lovely Anna from a watery suicide attempt and installs her on the barge. But Tiny, Bobo's longtime pal and parasite, hopes to drive Anna away before domestic bliss tears Bobo away from him; the still unsolved murder may be just the wedge Tiny needs. There's fog on the water and evil brewing...

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Ozus' World Movie Reviews - 9/10 by Dennis SchwartzMushy Hollywood romantic drama posing as film noir.
User Review - 10/10 by Louis TJean Gabin & Ida Lupino gave a wonderful performance. Don't miss it.
User Review - 8/10 by Adam SAn engrossing little slice of dockside drama that is (unfortunately) more of a reflection of the Hayes Code than it is of the original source material.
User Review - 6/10 by jay nNoirish wharf side drama with an excellent cast. Beautiful mood photography.
User Review - 6/10 by Kevin M. WFeeling like a little slice of real life, a gypsy dockworker saves a suicidal prostitute, and then they save each other. There's some other pepper thrown in for spice but the game try for a cinema verite feel of the thing enthralls till the end for the most part. Gabin has most of the load thrown on him and he pretty much carries the thing, growling throughout, even when he smiles. Tommy Mitchell and Claude Rains deliver with their usual competent panache . Ida Lupino does relieved-not-to-kill-herself pretty good, too.
User Review - 6/10 by Bill BA thoroughly enjoyable film, but it ended up being much closer to a melodrama than the Film Noir selection I was expecting. Still, Gabin and Lupino are amazing together and it's well worth checking out for them alone. Rental!
User Review - 6/10 by Adam DA decent noir with a few really nice touches, such as the main stars--Warm, offbeat, professional!!
User Review - 6/10 by Greg WAnd Yet Somehow It Got Made Anyway The DVD comes with a featurette about the "star-crossed" nature of the production. And it's true that they were originally planning to film in San Pedro Harbor or similar, which didn't happen on account of Pearl Harbor. It's true that star Jean Gabin had a fight with original director Fritz Lang and got him fired over Marlene Dietrich. But that's pretty much it, at least of the unexpected stuff. A lot of what they discuss is actually things they had to have known would be a problem. Like that the Hayes Office wasn't all that inclined to let the movie get made. The book talks about a wide range of subjects that simply weren't allowed under the Code, and it doesn't even have a happy ending. (The movie does, because Darryl Zanuck thought it should.) Yet somehow, most of the sins it portrays make it onscreen relatively untouched, though some are implied more than stated. Bobo (Gabin) is a drunken French dock worker. One night, he rescues Anna (Ida Lupino) from drowning; she's going to walk into the sea, and he goes after her. He even prevents her from being arrested by lying to a cop. Bobo spends most of the night with his best friend, Tiny (Thomas Mitchell), in a drunken haze--and that night, Pop Kelly (Arthur Aylesworth) is murdered. Bobo isn't sure if he did it or not, and somehow, he ends up with Pop's hat. Still, he pushes aside his fears and asks Anna to move in with him. He has gotten a job tending a barge for Takeo (Victor Sen Yung), and Anna joins him on the barge and fixes it up. They don't see Tiny much, because Tiny is jealous of Anna, but they have each other and Nutsy (Claude Rains). Anna even gets Bobo to stop drinking. Things go relatively well for them, though there's always the fear in the back of Bobo's mind that he killed Pop Kelly. Pop Kelly was strangled, and that's how Bobo reacts when he loses his temper. But things aren't bad, and they decide to get married. So here's one of the two things about the movie which bothered me most. Bobo flirts with Mildred (Robin Raymond), obviously if not explicitly a prostitute. This even happens a time or two after he is involved with Anna, though at that point he doesn't mean anything by it. However, his wedding gift to his new bride is the dress Mildred wears to work. Claude Rains has the misfortune of being asked to deliver a monologue about how modesty has no place in the marriage bed, that basically men want to be married to a skank. They probably mean "passionate woman," but that's not how it comes across. But I mean, it's one thing to buy her a revealing dress. It's another to literally buy her the used dress of a prostitute. Nutsy acknowledges to Anna that Mildred is awfully popular when she wears it. I'm not going to even begin to explain the sexual dynamics involved here, because that would require understanding them myself. That may well be the weirdest gift I've ever seen in a movie. The other odd thing was that Gabin's character was actually named Bobo. Now, according to the featurette, the character in the book, and original screenplay, is called "Frenchy." Gabin objected, and I can't say as I blame him. He acknowledged that it was the kind of thing Americans would call a French man in their midst, but he found it demeaning. Which I can totally understand. I agree with him. But "Bobo"? This is somehow better? I mean, while Gabin was proud of his French origins--and was only in Hollywood because the Nazis were in France--there was more to him than just being French. Okay. But when you hear the word "Bobo," do you think of a dog? A monkey? Professor Bobo from the Sci-Fi years of [i]MST3K[/i]? The point is that it's an animal name, not a human name. Or possibly a clown. But no real live humans have it as a real name, and I'd fight like crazy if someone tried to bestow it on me as a nickname, and it seems like this Bobo isn't someone you'd want fighting you. This isn't really a [i]noir[/i], not really. I spent the whole movie waiting for Anna to become sinister, because everyone kept calling the thing a [i]noir[/i], and any good [i]noir[/i] needs a [i]femme fatale[/i]. But it isn't and she isn't. She's been around the block a time or two, to be sure, but she really loves Bobo and is extremely grateful to him. Honestly, I thought possibly it was going to turn out that she'd killed Pop Kelly. Mildred isn't exactly bright and sunny, but she's basically a good person doing the best she can. If it weren't for Tiny, things would almost be innocent. But the presence of Tiny adds a dark hint of obsession to the proceedings. Bobo doesn't understand why Tiny never approves of the women Bobo goes out with, but a modern audience can't mistake it. Tiny doesn't want to share. It's 1942, so he may or may not know why or what he wants to do, but it's obvious that he's in love. Or at least obsessed. One of the people in the featurette refers to this as something of a dark fairy tale, and it that's so, Tiny is the necessary touch of evil.
User Review - 6/10 by Cody DKinda boring during some segments a few good noir aspects mostly I had a hard time staying awake during most of it

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