Written by James M. Tate / 8/28/2021 / No comments / claude rains , film noir or melodrama , forties , helene reynolds , jean gabin , jerome cowan , robin raymond , romance , thomas mitchell
JEAN GABIN IN 'MOONTIDE' WITH THOMAS MITCHELL & IDA LUPINO
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| Jean Gabin in MOONTIDE Year: 1942 Rating: ***1/2 |
Begins with an intentionally surreal barroom scene with the headless body of pouting-lipped barfly Penny Raymond with her head speaking a few feet away as our hero Jean Gabin reaches for a beer, trying to communicate with the torso...
This during a night of blackout drinking; after which
he feels falsely responsible for a murder heard about the next day, and
there's a twist...
Thomas Mitchell is Gabin's partner,
keeping him on a blackmail tightrope because of a likewise strangling
murder that happened years earlier... Which only randomly gets in the
way of perhaps the breeziest romance in Noirish Melodrama history. After
rescuing Ida Lupino from drowning, Gabin's Bo Bo takes her to the
live-bait waterfront shack (a wonderfully subtle set) where he'd started work counting fish. A
hollow yet optimistic existence with
only a dog by side, and, throw in a bizarre, philosophizing and
existential sidekick in Claude Rains, not much really happens but it's
nice seeing Gabin doing just that.
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| Jean Gabin in MOONTIDE |
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| Jean Gabin in MOONTIDE with Robin Raymond |
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| Jean Gabin in MOONTIDE with headless Robin Raymond |
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| Jean Gabin in MOONTIDE with Robin Raymond |
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| Thomas Mitchell in MOONTIDE |
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| Jean Gabin in MOONTIDE |
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| Jean Gabin in MOONTIDE from the Fox DVD Set with Ida Lupino |
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| Jean Gabin and his faithful dog (who doesn't die) in MOONTIDE |
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| Rich sailor passing by in Jerome Cowan and Helene Reynolds from MOONTIDE |
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| Ida Lupino in MOONTIDE |
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| Ida Lupino in MOONTIDE with Jean Gabin |
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| Ida Lupino and Jean Gabin in MOONTIDE |
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| Thomas Mitchell's the bad penny in MOONTIDE |
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