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Moontide is a 1942 American romantic drama with elements of a thriller. It was produced by Mark Hellinger and directed by Archie Mayo, who took over direction after the initial director Fritz Lang left the project early in the shooting schedule.
- Ida Lupino
Early life and family Lupino in 1937. Lupino was born at 33...
- Robin Raymond
Early life. Raymond graduated from Northwestern University...
- Ida Lupino
Moontide: Directed by Archie Mayo, Fritz Lang. With Jean Gabin, Ida Lupino, Thomas Mitchell, Claude Rains. 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.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Archie Mayo, Fritz Lang
- 1942-05-29
Brief Synopsis. After a drunken binge on the San Pablo waterfront, longshoreman Bobo fears he may have killed a man. In his uncertainty, he takes a job on an isolated bait barge. That night, he rescues lovely Anna from a watery suicide attempt and installs her on the barge.
- Archie Mayo, Fritz Lang, Saul Wurtzel
- Jean Gabin
Moontide. Bobo (Jean Gabin), a lonely longshoreman with a nasty drinking problem, awakes after a rough bender with no memory of the night before and an unsettling suspicion that he has killed...
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- Archie Mayo
- Drama
- Jean Gabin
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.
Moontide (1942) with Ida Lupino, Thomas Mitchell, Jean Gabin and Claude Reins is a wacky tale of dockside folks getting up to all sorts of bumps, drunken maudlin dive haunting, flagon tanking, and trying to kill oneself in the waves.
Oct 1, 2018 · Moontide (Archie Mayo & Fritz Lang, 1942) Martyn Bamber. October 2018. CTEQ Annotations on Film. Issue 88. Emerging from a troubled production history, Moontide seems overlooked in the annals of film history in general, and the story of 20th Century-Fox in particular.
