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Director:
Archie Mayo
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Writers:
John O'Hara (writer)
Willard Robertson (novel)
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Release Date:
29 May 1942 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Film-Noir more
Plot:
After a drunken binge on the San Pablo waterfront, longshoreman Bobo fears he may have killed a man... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. more
NewsDesk:
Noir Flicks Stretch Genre Limits
 (From New York Post. 4 September 2008, 10:30 AM, PDT)

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Ida Lupino as a Waif more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Jean Gabin ... Bobo
Ida Lupino ... Anna
Thomas Mitchell ... Tiny

Claude Rains ... Nutsy
Jerome Cowan ... Dr. Frank Brothers
Helene Reynolds ... Woman on boat
Ralph Byrd ... Rev. Wilson
William Halligan ... Bartender
Victor Sen Yung ... Takeo (as Sen Yung)
Chester Gan ... Henry Hirota
Robin Raymond ... Mildred
Arthur Aylesworth ... Pop Kelly
Arthur Hohl ... Jennings
John Kelly ... Mac
Ralph Dunn ... Policeman
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Additional Details

Runtime:
94 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
Certification:
Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15

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Trivia:
Archie Mayo replaced Fritz Lang as director. more
Movie Connections:
Remade as Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (2000) (TV) more

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2 out of 2 people found the following comment useful:-
Ida Lupino as a Waif, 7 February 2009
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Author: robert-temple-1 from United Kingdom

Here we have the 28 year-old Ida Lupino, looking more like 19 or 20, and already the veteran of more than thirty films, being a frail, charming, and vulnerable waif. She is thoroughly convincing, and we would all like to take her in and look after her. This duty falls to the gruff Jean Gabin, a hard-drinking waterfront drifter from port to port, who has at some point arrived in the States from France. In fact, Gabin in real life had fled the Nazi Occupation and this was one of two American films which he made in exile. The film was supposed to be directed by Fritz Lang, who would have made it a moodier and darker piece. However, he was replaced by the more cheerful Archie Mayo, so we get a film whose real value is not as cinema but as encounter between Lupino and Gabin. That keeps us watching. Claude Rains gives bemused support as a California waterfront bum (hardly his usual type of role!) and Thomas Mitchell is an unctuous, scheming villain who has conned Gabin into thinking he has 'something on him'. The film is rather sinister, and in many ways pointless. If it weren't for Lupino and Gabin being so fascinating, nobody would bother to watch this movie, as it falls between many stools. But Lupino is so entrancing in this role, that presumably no one really cares about the story anyway. And listening to Jean Gabin speak heavily accented English in California is so extraordinary that one wants to watch that too. Who gives a damn about the film, we've got Lupino and Gabin, and that's all that matters. They could read the telephone directory as far as I am concerned, and I would still watch.

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