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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, her head speaking a few feet away
as tough and talkative Jean Gabin reaches for a beer, talking to a torso...
This during a night of blackout drinking; after which
he feels falsely responsible for a murder heard about the next day... of a man he'd hazily fought the night before... and
there's a twist...
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| Jean Gabin and Ida Lupino in MOONTIDE |
Thomas Mitchell is Gabin's partner,
keeping him on a blackmail tightrope because of a prior likewise strangling
murder: 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, 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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