Moontide

9/24/2017

Sunnyside Up and Red Dot. Moontide is directed by Archie Mayo and adapted to screenplay by John O'Hara from the novel written by Willard Robertson. Its stars Jean Gabin, Ida Lupino, Thomas Mitchell and Claude Rains. Music is by David Buttolph and Cyril J. Mockridge, with cinematography by Charles G. Clarke. Sometimes weird, sometimes wonderful, but also wasteful, Moontide is a choppy experience. Hindered by production code strong arming and Fritz Lang and Lucien Ballard leaving the initial production, there's an over whelming feeling of what might have been. Story finds Gabin as Bobo, a salty sailor type living and working at the quayside, he likes a drink and after one particularly boozy night he wakes to think he may have killed somebody. Inconvenient since a troubled lady he helpe

12/24/2024

After a drinken brawl late one evening, "Bobo" (Jean Gabin) fears that he has accidentally done for a man and so takes a job in an isolated and lonely part of their local harbour. His best pal "Tiny" (Thomas Mitchell) is his only contact with the outside world until he happens upon the desperate "Anna" (Ida Lupino) whom he saves from taking the easy way out. It's not an easy friendship at first, but gradually the two start to learn to trust each other and that's to the chagrin of his old pal who is seeing the green eyed monster rise before his eyes. With the couple now firmly determined to tie the knot, just what lengths will "Tiny" go to to thwart their joy. Though Gabin isn't really anything much to write home about here, Lupino delivers quite strongly as her character, and it's seemingl