MOONTIDE (FOX FILM NOIR)

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• Release Year: 1942
• Genre: Drama, Film-Noir
• Plot: A 'brooding account of beachcombers and strays in a Southern California coast town' (New York Herald Tribune) and a surprising romance that motivates a lifelong drifter to settle down for good.; ; In the first U.S. on-screen performance, acclaimed French actor Jean Gabin plays Bobo, a free-spirited wanderer who docks in a Pacific seaside town with his buddy Tiny (Thomas Mitchell), a sponge who wants to leave. After a night of drunken debauchery, Bobo awakens on a strange barge wearing the cap of a dead man. Afraid he has committed the crime, Bobo prepares to skip town with Tiny but is delayed when he meets Anna (Ida Lupino), who he rescues from drowning herself in the surf. They fall in love and open a business together selling bait. Jealous and desperate to leave, Tiny attempts to ruin the relationship, and when Anna learns that Tiny has been keeping a dark secret, it's clear only one of them will survive.
• Cast: Jean Gabin, Ida Lupino, Thomas Mitchell, Claude Rains, Jerome Cowan, Helene Reynolds, Ralph Byrd, William Halligan, Victor Sen Yung, Chester Gan, Robin Raymond, Arthur Aylesworth, Arthur Hohl, John Kelly, Ralph Dunn, Tully Marshall, Tom Dugan, Gertrude Astor, Paul E. Burns, Forrest Dillon, Bruce Edwards, William Forrest, Vera Lewis, Tommy Mack, Pat McKee, Roseanne Murray, Constantine Romanoff, Marion Rosamond, Harry Semels, Charles Tannen, Max Wagner, Poppy Wilde, Archie Mayo, Fritz Lang, John O'Hara, Willard Robertson, Nunnally Johnson, Mark Hellinger, Charles G. Clarke, Lucien Ballard, William Reynolds, David Buttolph, Cyril J. Mockridge, James Basevi, Richard Day
• Director: Archie Mayo
• Runtime: 1:34
• Company: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation (20th Century Fox Film Corporation), Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment)
• Media Format: Movie