Moontide (Fox Film Noir) | 
 enlarge | Actors: Gertrude Astor, Arthur Ayleswofth, Ralph Byrd, Jerome Cowan, Ralph Dunn
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 190
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 95
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6
UPC: 024543528593
EAN: 0024543528593
ASIN: B001CC7PLW
Theatrical Release Date: 1942
Release Date: September 2, 2008 (New: This Week)
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Condition: Never opened in original factory sealed shrink wrap. Mint condition.
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 Love barges in August 14, 2008
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
MOONTIDE was Jean Gabin's Hollywood debut. It's a nicely-paced noir about a longshoreman who, when sobered up after a drinking binge, fears he may have killed a man. To keep a low profile, the dockworker takes a job on an isolated bait barge, but love comes to him unexpectedly in the form of a woman trying to drown herself.
In Raoul Walsh's HIGH SIERRA (1941), Ida Lupino received star billing over Humphrey Bogart.
Parenthetical number preceding title is a 1 to 10 viewer poll rating found at a film resource website.
(7.2) Moontide (1942) - Jean Gabin/Ida Lupino/Thomas Mitchell/Claude Rains/Jerome Cowan/Ralph Byrd/Victor Sen Yung/Tully Marshall
CAST AND CREW TRIVIA--
Was adapted for the screen by John O'Hara and Nunnally Johnson.
Archie Mayo also directed THE PETRIFIED FOREST (1936) starring Humphrey Bogart, THE ADVENTURES OF MARCO POLO (1938) with Gary Cooper, and the Marx. Bros. last film, A NIGHT IN CASANLANCA (1946).
Long-time star Jean Gabin (Bobo) resisted leaving France for Hollywood, until the German Army's occupation of his native country made the trip almost a necessity. Gabin acted in two American films before returning home in 1946.
Actress Ida Lupino (Anna) was also a successful director.
Thomas Mitchell (Tiny) originated on stage a role later played by Peter Falk on TV-- Lt. Columbo.
Claude Rains' (Nutsy) natural accent was the English dialect known as Cockney.
Ralph Byrd (Rev. Wilson) played comic strip crimefighter Dick Tracy in movies and on early TV.
 One of the Most Astonishing of All Films Noir Finally Comes to DVD! August 5, 2008
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
My first introduction to the great French movie star Jean Gabin came not from his French classics like "Grand Illusion" and "Pepe Le Moko," but from this incredible, haunting overlooked gem -- one of the great lost classics of the 1940s -- which, thanks to Fox DVD, is no longer lost!
1942's "Moontide," one of only two American-made/English-language films in which Gabin ever appeared, is not only one of the most powerful and absorbing Films Noir you'll ever see in your life, but it's brilliantly made, as well: While the credited director of the film is Archie Mayo, Fritz Lang ("Metropolis") directed a handful of sequences, and Salvador Dali even contributed a great, surreal "drunk" sequence. The chemistry between Gabin and Ida Lupino is electric and, indeed, I can't speak highly enough about "Moontide," a film which will stay with you long after the final credits have ended. I'm excited that it has finally merited a DVD release, here in the US.
To read more about Jean Gabin and "Moontide," check out my book WORLD'S COOLEST MOVIE STAR: THE COMPLETE 95 FILMS (AND LEGEND) OF JEAN GABIN, VOLUMES ONE AND TWO, which is available at Amazon.com, as well as through [...].
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