Moontide

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Forced to flee Paris during the Occupation, the great French leading man Jean Gabin starred in a brace of Hollywood films, the best of which was the first, 20th Century-Fox's Moontide. Cast to type, Gabin plays Bobo, a brooding itinerant dock-worker who gets mixed up in a drunken brawl. Upon awakening, Bobo is convinced that he has killed a man by his mercenary "pal" Tiny (Thomas Mitchell). Despairing at the thought of having committed murder, not to mentioned being blackmailed for the rest of his life by the treacherous Tiny, Bobo is able to find a few fleeting moments of happiness with Anna (Ida Lupino), a suicidal young girl whom he has saved from a watery grave (The intensity of the love scenes may well be due to the allegedly real-life romance between Jean Gabin and Ida Lupino). Novelist John O'Hara adapted the screenplay from a book by actor Willard Robertson.

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Cast

Jean Gabin
as Bobo
Ida Lupino
as Anna
Thomas Mitchell
as Tiny
Claude Rains
as Nutsy
Jerome Cowan
as Dr. Brothers
Helene Reynolds
as Woman on boat
Ralph Byrd
as Rev. Price
William Halligan
as Bartender
Victor Sen Yung
as Takeo
Chester Gan
as Hirota
Robin Raymond
as Mildred
Arthur Ayleswofth
as Pop Kelly
Arthur Hohl
as Jennings, Hotel Clerk
John Kelly
as Mac
Ralph Dunn
as Policeman
Tully Marshall
as Mr. Simpson
Tom Dugan
as lst Waiter
Vera Lewis
as Mrs. Simpson
Bruce Edwards
as Man
Gertrude Astor
as Woman
Marion Rosemund
as Girls at Beach
Roseanne Murray
as Girls at Beach
Marion Rosamond
as Girl on beach
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Audience Reviews for Moontide

  • Aug 24, 2015
    Feeling 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.
    Kevin M. W Super Reviewer
  • Jul 02, 2010
    The only Film Noir movie I ever actually liked
    Brody M Super Reviewer
  • Feb 07, 2009
    An 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.
    Randy T Super Reviewer
  • Feb 06, 2009
    Noirish wharf side drama with an excellent cast. Beautiful mood photography.
    jay n Super Reviewer
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