These two fall for each other and they plan to settle in San Pablo and marry. But that doesn't stop him from saving the life of Ida Lupino who tries to drown herself because of her own relationship problems. Another waterfront denizen Arthur Aylesworth is killed and Gabin is tormented by the fact that he was on one big bender the night of the homicide and it could be him. He's a nasty drunk however who can be provoked to violence and has been. Gabin is a happy go lucky sailor who is beached with his pal Thomas Mitchell in the small coast town of San Pablo in California. Still it's a good showcase for his talent and appeal. It's not anywhere in the class of The Grand Illusion, Pepe LeMoko, or La Bete Humaine in fact it goes over into melodrama. One of two American made films that Jean Gabin did in Hollywood while in exile from his beloved France is this item Moontide.
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It turns out that the book on which the movie was based was MUCH more adult and never could have been brought to the screen at that time-though quite a bit of the book still made it to the film but was more implied than explicitly stated. It talks about the odd circumstances surrounding the film and its star. By the way, who came up with the names for the characters in this film?! You've got Bobo, Tiny and Nutsy-an interesting assortment to say the least! Also, on the DVD is a documentary about the making of the film. Dark, brooding, very adult for the time and genuinely odd-this film is worth seeing-especially for its wonderful cinematography. So, while it's a bit like an early American example of film noir, it is more like a hybrid of this and the films than helped to make Gabin famous. It bears more similarity to some of Gabin's French-language films like "Port of Shadows" and "La Bête Humaine"-very dark films about madness and murder.
This film is very much unlike a Hollywood film as far as the plot goes. And, when Bobo and Anna marry, Tiny is sure to let his malevolence boil over and tragedy ensues. However, the nasty character Tiny (Thomas Mitchell) is always nearby-because he's holding some secret about Bobo-and Bobo has to put up with Tiny-even though there isn't much to like about Tiny. After waking up from a binge, he rescues a woman, Anna, who is trying to kill herself (Ida Lupino) he takes it upon himself to be responsible for her-which is quite touching. Bobo (Gabin) is a barge operator who likes to drink and fight-and you see him doing this when the film begins. It's a shame, as his pre- and post-war films are often amazingly good. His English isn't terrible-but it isn't as good as an actor like, say, Charles Boyer. But, with his performance in "Moontide", you can see why the very talented Gabin made very few films during his exile from Nazi-occupied France. As for directors, the public would never know and with some other foreign actors, they were able to suppress their accents better. Unlike many Europeans in the entertainment world who were displaced by the Nazis and came to America (such as Fritz Lang and Billy Wilder), Jean Gabin was handicapped as he was a leading man whose English was obviously poor.
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