Moontide Page #2

Synopsis: After a drunken binge on the San Pablo waterfront, longshoreman Bobo fears he may have killed a man. In his uncertainty, he takes a job on an isolated bait barge. That night, he rescues lovely Anna from a watery suicide attempt and installs her on the barge. But Tiny, Bobo's longtime pal and parasite, hopes to drive Anna away before domestic bliss tears Bobo away from him; the still unsolved murder may be just the wedge Tiny needs. There's fog on the water and evil brewing...
Director(s): Archie Mayo, Fritz Lang
Production: 20th Century Fox Film Corporation
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins.
 
IMDB:
6.9
Year:
1942
94 min
99 Views


- My barge. Yes. You like?

- Like?

- Why should I? It stinks.

- Soon you'll get used to that.

Two or three day here

just like a breath of fresh air.

But who'd stay here two or three days

to find out? Not me.

So long, pal.

If I was feeling better...

I might like to know how I got here,

but I'm not feeling better.

Thank you very much,

and good-bye.

- No like job? So sorry.

- Job? What job?

No remember last night?

My name Henry.

We meet in chop suey house,

drink whole bottle of sake.

You say you work for me,

I bring you here.

You very drunk.

No remember?

Hey, any news?

- Not yet.

- Man hunters.

George good cop.

He catch him maybe.

- Catch who?

- You know Pop Kelly?

Somebody kill him last night,

early this morning.

- Murder. Yes?

- I never heard of him.

Don't go. I give you dollar a day

and a bottle of sake.

- Good day, gentlemen.

- Whoever done it, Henry, he didn't do much.

Pop was an awful pest,

especially when he was drunk.

But to choke an old guy like that-

Gee whiz.

- Choke?

- Yep.

That's the way he done it-

choked him to death.

Just got him by the throat

and hung on until it was all over.

And then he took all his dough.

Oh, about 20 bucks.

I give you $1.50 a day

and a bottle of sake.

- But they don't know who did it?

- You heard what he said.

Choke.

That's a funny way to kill a man.

Yeah. Funny to some people,

but not to Pop.

Come on.

We got three more boats to check.

Wait a minute.

You said you brought me here?

- Yes. Yes.

- You were with me all the time?

When you get here, you go to sleep.

No talk, just sleep.

So I go, leave you here.

There, in doorway.

You take job, I give you two dollar a day

and a bottle of sake every day.

Could you let me have

a couple of bucks in advance?

Okay, okay. Sure.

You good man. Nice job, see?

Just sell bait.

- So much, one dollar. Two, two dollar.

- Yeah, I got it.

When you sell all bait,

we get some more.

We go out in boat

and get bait every night.

- I got it. I got it.

- He's got it. Come on. Let's go.

- Good business. Nice job. Everything okay.

- Sure. Sure.

Well, thanks, Mr. Henry...

but we can't stay here

to sell your bait.

We have something

very important to find out.

And right away, pal.

Let's go. Come on.

- Is Tiny here?

- Are you goin' or comin'?

You still owe something

if you're going.

- I'll pay you. Is Tiny here?

- That's two days you owe...

and two days you gotta pay.

I wouldn't do that if I were you.

Drop it.

Now answer the question.

He's inside, in the shower room.

He's inside, in the shower room.

That's better.

Keep an eye on that.

I'll pay you later.

Hey.

- What's the idea?

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John O'Hara

John Henry O'Hara (January 31, 1905 – April 11, 1970) was an American writer who earned his early literary reputation for short stories and became a best-selling novelist before the age of 30 with Appointment in Samarra and Butterfield 8. His work stands out among that of contemporaries for its unvarnished realism. While O'Hara's legacy as a writer is debated, his champions rank him highly among the underappreciated and unjustly neglected major American writers of the 20th century. Few college students educated after O'Hara's death in 1970 have discovered him, chiefly because he refused to allow his work to be reprinted in anthologies used to teach literature at college level. "O’Hara may not have been the best story writer of the twentieth century, but he is the most addictive," wrote Lorin Stein, editor-in-chief of the Paris Review, in a 2013 appreciation of O'Hara's work. Stein added, "You can binge on his collections the way some people binge on Mad Men, and for some of the same reasons. On the topics of class, sex, and alcohol—that is, the topics that mattered to him—his novels amount to a secret history of American life." Five of O'Hara's stories were adapted into popular films in the 1950s and 1960s, yet, during his lifetime, O'Hara's literary reputation was damaged by the detractors he accumulated due to his outsized and easily bruised ego, alcoholic crankiness, long held resentments and by politically conservative columns he wrote in the 1960s, all of which at times overshadowed his gift for story telling. John Updike, a fan of O'Hara's writing and a fellow Pennsylvanian, said that the prolific author "outproduced our capacity for appreciation; maybe now we can settle down and marvel at him all over again." more…

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