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Moontide

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NR,1hr 34min
Genre:
Drama
Released:
January 1, 1942
Directors:
Fritz Lang, Archie Mayo
Distributor:
20th Century Fox
Starring:
Jean Gabin, Ida Lupino, Thomas Mitchell  ...more
Synopsis: Forced to flee Paris during the Occupation, the great French leading man Jean Gabin starred in a brace of Hollywood films, the best of which was the first, 20th Century-Fox's Moontide. Cast to type, Gabin plays Bobo, a brooding itinerant dock-worker who gets mixed up in a drunken brawl. Upon awakening, Bobo is convinced that he has killed a man by his mercenary "pal" Tiny (Thomas Mitchell). Despairing at the thought of having committed murder, not to mentioned being blackmailed for the rest of his ... Full Synopsis
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Craig Butler, AMG Review
Perhaps if original director Fritz Lang had remained on the film, Moontide might have been something other than a standard by-the-numbers thriller. Certainly France's great actor Jean Gabin deserved a better vehicle for his Hollywood debut. It's not that Moontide is a bad film, for it's more than watchable; it's just that the screenplay settles for the mundane and predictable instead of surprising ... Full Review
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