![]() He saves her life and takes her back to his barge, where she’ll eventually find meaning in life again. In Moontide, Bobo encounters Anna, played by Ida Lupino, as she attempts a watery suicide. ![]() In Port of Shadows, Gabin’s Jean is an Army deserter in the port city of Le Havre who fatefully encounters the cabaret dancer Nelly at Panama’s, a lonely, seaside bar on the ragged edge of the city. Still, they existed and continued to exist in the coming decades despite the overarching influence of commercialism in all cinema. ![]() Those differences weren’t ironclad - films had both happy and sad endings on both sides of the Atlantic. Moontide and Port of Shadows offer a fascinating study into key differences in Hollywood and European filmmaking and storytelling during the 1930s and early 1940s, a time when the studio system reigned supreme in Hollywood and war loomed heavily over the European continent. ![]()
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