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Moontide

  • 19421942
  • ApprovedApproved
  • 1h 34m
IMDb RATING
6.8/10
1.8K
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Jean Gabin and Ida Lupino in Moontide (1942)
  • Crime
  • Drama
  • Film-Noir
In California, Bobo and his mooching 'pal' Tiny are doing odd jobs and getting drunk and they hide a secret about the unsolved murder of sailor Pop Kelly but suicidal waitress Anna, saved by... Read allIn California, Bobo and his mooching 'pal' Tiny are doing odd jobs and getting drunk and they hide a secret about the unsolved murder of sailor Pop Kelly but suicidal waitress Anna, saved by Bobo, unravels the mystery.In California, Bobo and his mooching 'pal' Tiny are doing odd jobs and getting drunk and they hide a secret about the unsolved murder of sailor Pop Kelly but suicidal waitress Anna, saved by Bobo, unravels the mystery.
IMDb RATING
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1.8K
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  • Directors
    • Archie Mayo
    • Fritz Lang(uncredited)
  • Writers
    • John O'Hara(screen play)
    • Willard Robertson(from the novel by)
    • Nunnally Johnson(contributing writer)
  • Stars
    • Jean Gabin
    • Ida Lupino
    • Thomas Mitchell
Top credits
  • Directors
    • Archie Mayo
    • Fritz Lang(uncredited)
  • Writers
    • John O'Hara(screen play)
    • Willard Robertson(from the novel by)
    • Nunnally Johnson(contributing writer)
  • Stars
    • Jean Gabin
    • Ida Lupino
    • Thomas Mitchell
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 41User reviews
    • 16Critic reviews
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    • Nominated for 1 Oscar
      • 2 wins & 1 nomination total

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    Claude Rains, Ralph Byrd, Jean Gabin, Chester Gan, Vera Lewis, Ida Lupino, and Tully Marshall in Moontide (1942)
    Ida Lupino in Moontide (1942)
    Thomas Mitchell in Moontide (1942)
    Jerome Cowan and Helene Reynolds in Moontide (1942)
    Claude Rains, Chester Gan, and Victor Sen Yung in Moontide (1942)
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    Jean Gabin
    Jean Gabin
    • Boboas Bobo
    Ida Lupino
    Ida Lupino
    • Annaas Anna
    Thomas Mitchell
    Thomas Mitchell
    • Tinyas Tiny
    Claude Rains
    Claude Rains
    • Nutsyas Nutsy
    Jerome Cowan
    Jerome Cowan
    • Dr. Frank Brothersas Dr. Frank Brothers
    Helene Reynolds
    Helene Reynolds
    • Woman on Boatas Woman on Boat
    Ralph Byrd
    Ralph Byrd
    • Rev. Wilsonas Rev. Wilson
    William Halligan
    • Bartenderas Bartender
    Victor Sen Yung
    Victor Sen Yung
    • Takeoas Takeo
    • (as Sen Yung)
    Chester Gan
    Chester Gan
    • Henry Hirotaas Henry Hirota
    Robin Raymond
    Robin Raymond
    • Mildredas Mildred
    Arthur Aylesworth
    Arthur Aylesworth
    • Pop Kellyas Pop Kelly
    Arthur Hohl
    Arthur Hohl
    • Jenningsas Jennings
    John Kelly
    John Kelly
    • Macas Mac
    Ralph Dunn
    Ralph Dunn
    • Policemanas Policeman
    Tully Marshall
    Tully Marshall
    • Mr. Simpsonas Mr. Simpson
    Tom Dugan
    Tom Dugan
    • Waiter #1as Waiter #1
    • (scenes deleted)
    Gertrude Astor
    Gertrude Astor
    • Womanas Woman
    • (uncredited)
    • Directors
      • Archie Mayo
      • Fritz Lang(uncredited)
    • Writers
      • John O'Hara(screen play)
      • Willard Robertson(from the novel by)
      • Nunnally Johnson(contributing writer) (uncredited)
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    • Trivia
      Archie Mayo replaced Fritz Lang as director.
    • Quotes

      Takeo: Pop was an awful pest, especially when he was drunk, but to choke an old guy like that, gee whiz.

      Bobo: Choke?

      Takeo: Yep, that's the way he done it, choked him to death. Just got him by the throat and hung on until it was all over.

    • Connections
      Featured in Dreaming with Scissors: Hitchcock, Surrealism & Salvador Dali (2008)
    • Soundtracks
      Moontide
      (uncredited)

      Written by Alfred Newman and Charles Henderson

    User reviews41

    Review
    Top review
    7/10
    Warm, offbeat, professional...a just a bit unexceptional.
    Moontide (1942)

    What a surprise, and with some well known actors in little known roles. And one little known actor in the U.S., the great French star Jean Gabin. All put together in an elegant, fast, and sympathetic way.

    The story is rather sweet, a love story between two unlikely loners, the charming and volatile hard drinking Bobo, played by Gabin, and the young and troubled Anna, played by Ida Lupino. Each of their pasts looms and interferes in the romance, mainly through the maliciousness of Bobo's old friend, another violent man played by Thomas Mitchell. And then there is the incomparable Claude Rains (you won't recognize him in the first scenes with his beard), who plays a truly good friend. All of this takes place in a little fishing shack at a big stone breakwater on the California Coast somewhere, and most of it takes place at night.

    Archie Mayo, who made a lot of really good films and few if any masterpieces ("Petrified Forest" is his most famous, from 1936), really does show mastery of storytelling here. And with cinematography by Charles Clarke good enough to get an Oscar nomination (with some help by the more famous Lucien Ballard), you can see why this is better than most. Fritz Lang is shown as a co-director behind the scenes, and you get suspicious that the visual strength of all this is partly his doing.

    But it is the story itself that might be the achilles heel here--it progresses with some twists that are suggested in the first few minutes, and that don't turn and surprise us later. The end is the end you expect, all neatly packaged.

    Not that you don't mind so much--the leading characters are, if nothing else, very likable. But along those same lines, I think every scene is filmed by-the-book. Very likable, and competent, and rather beautiful all along, but lacking the edges of uncertainty, of emotional depths you would expect from these kinds of characters, even of drama in the few scenes of violence. "Moontide," with its poetic title, insists somehow that it is a just a performance and an entertainment, a light romance, even though it's just an inch from tipping into something much bigger.
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    • Release date
      • May 29, 1942 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Tegljenje
    • Filming locations
      • Malibu, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Twentieth Century Fox
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 34 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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