Moontide - A Dreamy Film Noir
I had seen Moontide, a Noir from 1942, starring Jean Gabin and Ida Lupino, several years ago but couldn't recall much about it. I recently saw it again on the Movies! Channel, which is my go to channel now for Noir, since I had to cut expenses and dump the satellite dish (that was the only place I could watch TCM). Tubi is my second choice for finding classic Noir - I've seen some on there that I have never heard of before! Anyway, Moontide is a wonderfully moody film, very dreamlike with its soft shadows and the sparkling light on the ocean. The cinematography is excellent! It feels more like a European film than an American one, perhaps because the lead actor is Jean Gabin, a French film star. His character, Bobo, is funny, passionate, a bit rough at times yet very likeable. Ida Lupino is luminescent as Anna, a tragic heroine who falls for Bobo. Thomas Mitchell has a very different part here as Bobo's companion, and Claude Rains is a very quirky character called Nutsy (I ...




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