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  • Moontide (Fox Film Noir) DVD

    NR (Not Rated) :: 20th Century Fox :: Released: 2008-09-02




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    Moontide (Fox Film Noir) Summary
    genre: drama
    rating: nr
    release Date: 2-sep-2008
    media Type: dvd

    The little-known but affecting film noir Moontide is full of surprises, especially for the many film fans who may not have seen it until its release on DVD. It stars Jean Gabin, a huge star in his native France, who was trying to cross over to Hollywood stardom in this film, but ended up making just two Hollywood features. It also stars Ida Lupino as his love interest, and who is very affecting and memorable in what could have been a two-dimensional role. Gabin plays Bobo, a wharf rat with a drinking problem working up and down the West Coast of the U.S., and happens on the desolate Anna (Lupino), whom he sees trying to kill herself in the sea. That two such broken characters can find love and help heal one another is one of the main themes of the film, and an unexpected one in the hard bitten genre of film noir. Gabin and Lupino really shine, though Gabin can be a bit hammy in his jauntiness. Playing against type as the bad guy, with unspeakable intentions, is Thomas Mitchell (at the time much beloved, having just played Scarlett O'Hara's Pa in Gone With the Wind). Claude Rains is also affecting, as the local failed intellectual. The story behind Moontide is at least as engaging as the film itself, and happily, this DVD edition includes a 25-minute documentary on the hurdles, some nearly fatal, that faced this little film on its way to be made in 1941. First, it was to have been filmed on location in San Pedro, California--but then the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and every port on the West Coast was suddenly girded for possible attack, so the elaborate wharf set was created on the Fox lot. There were tons of risqué themes in the original book upon which the movie is based, and the tales of getting it past the censors are riveting.

    And the behind the scenes drama was also intense; master director Fritz Lang started the film, but quit in a snit, and was replaced by the journeyman Archie Mayo. Surrealist Salvador Dali was hired to create a hallucinatory alcoholic dream sequence, but his imagery was reportedly too disturbing to use, so the studio threw it out, but replaced it with an appropriately "Dali-esque" scene, complete with menacing clocks and shuddery imagery. Film buffs won't want to miss this fascinating mini documentary. --A.T. Hurley

    Moontide DVD Techincal Details Cast: Jean Gabin, Claude Rains, Jerome Cowan, Ralph Dunn
    Director: Archie Mayo
    Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
    Rated: NR (Not Rated)
    Running Time: 94 mins
    UPC: 024543528593
    Binding: DVD
    Studio: 20th Century Fox
    Release Date: 2008-09-02
    Region Code: 1
    Specs: Black & White, Subtitled, Full Screen, Closed-captioned, NTSC

    Language & Subtitles English (Unknown - Dolby Digital 1.0), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), English (Original Language - Dolby Digital 1.0),
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