#moontide 1942

[kingoftheclaudes]

Propaganda

Phillipe Rambeau (This Earth is Mine) - him and jean simmons are so cute in this movie! his monologue about finding himself is such a good scene and he's adorably grouchy and grumbly. when he growls, he GROWLS

Nutsy (Moontide) - When he said "I haven't slept since 1936", I felt that in my very SOUL. He's such a sweet little scrungle and he looks a lot like Teddy Roosevelt! He's just kinda there tm for the whole movie, just shuffling around and looking out for his buddies. He reminds me of a magpie for some reason (especially with the whole dress scene!). Anyways, vote for my king Nutsy!

This is round two for The King of the Claudes tournament and other matchups can be found here!

Additional Propaganda under the cut!

Phillipe Rambeau

Nutsy

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Moontide (1942) Archie Mayo

September 25th 2024

[rwpohl]

moontide, archie mayo 1942

[hotvintagepoll]

Hi! Quick question - when submitting propaganda, are we only submitting things from the movies in which are scrunglies are…y’know, scrungly? Like take Claude Rains for example, is he only restricted to gifs of him looking like a homeless dude in Moontide(1942) or can we submit like polished headshots or whatnot? Just thought I’d ask beforehand! I’m so stoked for this poll!!

The polls are about scrungliness, not hotness, so please submit propaganda that you feel conveys scrungliness. Generic hot photos won't be boosted because this is not a hot tournament.

With that said, please be considerate of how you're framing scrungliness. I'm going to post more about this tomorrow but some propaganda submissions had a troubling habit of conflating difference with scrungliness, and it really bothers me. Like in this ask—be careful about how you're throwing the word "homeless" in like it's shorthand for weird, ok? Being homeless is just...being homeless. It doesn't make you weird or strange and it shouldn't be used that way. The casual tone some of the submitted propaganda had toward class/race/disability has really bothered me and I'll post a longer discussion of this before the tournament starts.

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Jean Gabin et Ida Lupino dans "La Péniche de l'amour" (Moontide) réalisé par Archie Mayo en 1942

[barkingbonzo]

Because She Is💥IDA LUPINO💥

Ida Lupino (4 February 1918 – 3 August 1995) was a British actress, director, writer, and producer. Throughout her 48-year career, she appeared in 59 films and directed eight, working primarily in the United States, where she became a citizen in 1948. She is widely regarded as the most prominent female filmmaker working in the 1950s during the Hollywood studio system. With her independent production company, she co-wrote and co-produced several social-message films and became the first woman to direct a film noir, The Hitch-Hiker, in 1953.

Among Lupino's other directed films, the best known are Not Wanted (1949), about unwed pregnancy (she took over for a sick director and refused directorial credit); Never Fear (1950), loosely based upon her own experiences battling paralyzing polio; Outrage (1950), one of the first films about rape; The Bigamist (1953), and The Trouble with Angels (1966). Her short yet immensely influential directorial career, tackling themes of women trapped by social conventions, usually under melodramatic or noir coverings, is a pioneering example of proto-feminist filmmaking.

As an actress, Lupino's best known films are The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939) with Basil Rathbone; They Drive by Night (1940) with George Raft and Humphrey Bogart; High Sierra (1941) with Bogart; The Sea Wolf (1941) with Edward G. Robinson and John Garfield; Ladies in Retirement (1941) with Louis Hayward; Moontide (1942) with Jean Gabin; The Hard Way (1943); Deep Valley (1947) with Dane Clark; Road House (1948) with Cornel Wilde and Richard Widmark; While the City Sleeps (1956) with Dana Andrews and Vincent Price; and Junior Bonner (1972) with Steve McQueen.

Lupino also directed more than 100 episodes of television shows in a variety of genres, including westerns, supernatural tales, situation comedies, murder mysteries, and gangster stories. She was the only woman to direct an episode of the original The Twilight Zone series ("The Masks"), and the only director to star in an episode ("The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine").

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Ida Lupino and Jean Gabin on set of MOONTIDE (1942)

[norashelley]

1942 and 1945! 💖

uh oh 1942 has a large amount of my most favorite films, what if I accidentally break my limit of 5 per year for this one. -The Talk of the Town (my blog's namesake!) -Now, Voyager -You Were Never Lovelier -The Palm Beach Story -My Sister Eileen -To Be or Not to Be -Cairo -Lady in a Jam -Moontide -I Married an Angel

1945 was previously asked but this gives me a chance to add some more favorites to it without guilt! -Mildred Pierce -Over 21 -Pillow to Post -Anchors Aweigh -The Wicked Lady

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Jean Gabin- holy fuck this guy fucking rules

I am not an "old movie" person by any means. I have never tried to write a review or summary of a movie, period. I just feel very moved by these movies. Gabin's face. Dude. DUUUUDE. I feel like I was fucking robbed. 34 years I've gone without ever seeing these, and even the worst of them (moontide) was worth my time.

Thank you to my best friend, who has slowly over the last few years been showing me dozens of older films. Including all of these in just 3 or4 IRL sessions. @itslucyhenley TYVM for being the best human I know.

Gabin has a face I could watch forever. He is so fucking cool. Like, I used to think Bogart was the coolest, baddest old movie dude around.

Gabin gives him a serious run. I am stunned.

Grand Illusion 1937- This one really blew me away. The strong anti war commentary. The subtle gay love story. the humor and horror. Stunning.

Pepe Le Moko 1937- fucking tragic. but funny. Loved it. Also apparently responsible for pepe le pew existing. 

La Bete Humaine 1938- This felt so modern. Like the prototype of noir, but also a formula for future serial killer stories. It was fucked up, but the camera work and bleak transitions form daylight to all dark and brooding shadows really worked so well. The train itself felt like a fully developed character.

Port of Shadows 1938- Are these French people okay? Also I feel like bands like The Smiths and My Chemical Romance would not have existed without this movie lol. LOVED IT.

Le Jour Se Leve (Daybreak) 1939- Jesus. These French folks are not okay at all. Bleak. Gorgeous. Fucked up.

Moontide 1942- MEH. Weird movie, but Gabin was so cool in it. The only movie of his I have seen that feels like a a straight up romance/drama with a lot of comedy mixed in.

Touchez pas au grisbi 1954- cool as fuck heist-adjacent movie. God I loved this. Gabin at his absolute coolest for me.

French Cancan 1955- loved this night club comedy/drama. The color was so gorgeous and the art within the movie on the walls etc. felt like an extension of the characters themselves. I laughed, I cried, I got up and legit danced. Absolute BLAST of a flick.

[bm2ab]

Arrivals & Departures . 04 February 1918 – 03 August 1995 . Ida Lupino

Ida Lupino was a British actress, director, writer, and producer. Throughout her 48-year career, she appeared in 59 films and directed eight, working primarily in the United States, where she became a citizen in 1948. She is widely regarded as the most prominent female filmmaker working in the 1950s during the Hollywood studio system. With her independent production company, she co-wrote and co-produced several social-message films and became the first woman to direct a film noir, The Hitch-Hiker, in 1953.

Among Lupino's other directed films, the best known are Not Wanted (1949), about unwed pregnancy (she took over for a sick director and refused directorial credit); Never Fear (1950), loosely based upon her own experiences battling paralyzing polio; Outrage (1950), one of the first films about rape; The Bigamist (1953), and The Trouble with Angels (1966). Her short yet immensely influential directorial career, tackling themes of women trapped by social conventions, usually under melodramatic or noir coverings, is a pioneering example of proto-feminist filmmaking.

As an actress, Lupino's best known films are The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939) with Basil Rathbone; They Drive by Night (1940) with George Raft and Humphrey Bogart; High Sierra (1941) with Bogart; The Sea Wolf (1941) with Edward G. Robinson and John Garfield; Ladies in Retirement (1941) with Louis Hayward; Moontide (1942) with Jean Gabin; The Hard Way (1943); Deep Valley (1947) with Dane Clark; Road House (1948) with Cornel Wilde and Richard Widmark; While the City Sleeps (1956) with Dana Andrews and Vincent Price; and Junior Bonner (1972) with Steve McQueen.

Lupino also directed more than 100 episodes of television shows in a variety of genres, including westerns, supernatural tales, situation comedies, murder mysteries, and gangster stories. She was the only woman to direct an episode of the original The Twilight Zone series ("The Masks"), and the only director to star in an episode ("The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine").

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list of the worst movies Ive seen in the 20th century

14 Hours (Fourteen Hours) 1951 (grace kelly paul, Douglas)

A Summer Place 1959

-Any wednesday 1966 (jane Fonda, jason robards, dean jones)

Affectionately yours 1941 (dennis morgan, rita hayworth)

Allegheny Uprising 1939 (John Wayne, Claire trevor)

Bandolero! 1968 (James stewart, Dean Martin, racquel Welsh)

Bell book and candle 1959 (James Stewart, kim Novak, Jack lemmon)

Blonde venus 1932 (dir josef von Sternburg; marlene dietrich, cary grant)

Blood alley 1955 john wayne Lauren bacall

Boomerang! 1947 (Dana Andrews)

Breezy 1973 (william holden, kay lenz)

Clash by Night 1952 (Barbara stanwyck, Marilyn monroe)

Cry of the city 1948

Desire 1936 (Gary cooper, Marlene dietrich )

Desire me 1947 Greer garson robert Mitchum

Destry rides again 1939 james Stewart, marlene dietrich)

Dream wife 1953 Cary Grant Deborah Kerr Walter Pidgeon

Every girl should be married 1948 (Cary Grant, betsy drake)

Father goose 1964 (cary grant)

Fifth avenue girl 1939 (ginger rogers)

Forty guns 1957 (barbara stanwyck)

Giant 1956 (Dir. George Stevens| Elizabeth taylor, rock hudson, james dean)

Green Fire 1954 (Grace Kelly, Stewart granger)

Green Mansions 1959 (Audrey Hepburn)

Houseboat 1958 Cary Grant Sophia Loren

Indecent proposal 1993 (Robert Redford)

Julia misbehaves 1948 (Greer Garson Walter Pidgeon, elizabeth taylor, Peter lawford)

Kangaroo 1952 Maureen O'Hara, peter Lawford

Legal Eagles 1986 (Robert redford)

Man of the west 1958 gary cooper

Midnight 1939

Moontide 1942

Ninitchka 1939

The Nun’s Story 1959 (Audrey Hepburn)

Peyton Place 1959

Platinum blonde 1931- Capra; Jean Harlow

Room for one more 1952 Cary grant betsy drake

Separate Tables 1958

Seven sinners 1940 Marlene Dietrich john wayne

Shane 1953 Jean Arthur

SOB 1981

Stuart little 1999

Streets of Laredo 1949 William Holden

Sylvia scarlett 1935 Cary Grant Katharine Hepburn

The burning hills 1956 Natalie Wood tab hunter

The chase 1966 Robert Redford, Jane Fonda

The Children’s Hour 1961 Audrey Hepburn

The Far country (1954) james stewart

The fighting kentuckian 1949 john wayne vera raltson

The girl he left behind 1956 (natalie Wood, tab hunter)

The grass is greener 1960 (cary Grant)

The Great race 1965 (natalie Wood)

the key 1958 (william holden Sophia Loren

The Lion 1962 (william Holden)

The lusty men 1952

The man from Laramie 1955 (James stewart)

The moonlighter 1953 (fred macmurray barbara stanwyck)

The Night of the Hunter 1955 (robert Mitchum)

the proud and the profane 1956 william holden deborah kerr

The rounders 1965 (henry fonda)

The strange love of Martha Ivers 1946

The toast of New York 1937 (Cary grant)

The Unforgiven 1960 (Audrey hepburn)

The Way We Were 1973 (robert Redford)

The wild Rovers 1971 (William Holden, Ryan O'Neal)

The Window 1949

The women 1939 (norma shearer, Joan crawford, rosalind russell)

They all laughed 1981 (Audrey hepburn)

They Live by Night 1948

Tom Dick and Harry 1941 (ginger Rogers)

Vera cruz 1954 (Gary Cooper, burt lancaster)

Winchester 73 (1950) (James Stewart) Dir Anthony mann

The brave little toaster 1987

The gay bride 1934 carole lombard

Red headed woman 1932 jean harlow

ET 1986

all dogs go to heaven 1989

Home alone 3 1998

Babe 2 pig in the city 1998

Mr hobbs takes a vacation 1962 maureen o'hara, James stewart

[kingoftheclaudes]

Propaganda

Aristides Mavros (Lisbon) - He does it all for the money, babes. He can't help it if he's hot, too.

Nutsy (Moontide) - When he said "I haven't slept since 1936", I felt that in my very SOUL. He's such a sweet little scrungle and he looks a lot like Teddy Roosevelt! He's just kinda there tm for the whole movie, just shuffling around and looking out for his buddies. He reminds me of a magpie for some reason (especially with the whole dress scene!). Anyways, vote for my king Nutsy!

This is round one for The King of The Claudes tournament and other matchups can be found here!

Additional Propaganda under the cut!

Aristides Mavros

Nutsy

[houseofcatwic]

Ida Lupino - Moontide 1942

[sesiondemadrugada]

Moontide (Fritz Lang & Archie Mayo, 1942).

[sala66]

Moontide (Marea de Luna), de Archie Mayo y Fritz Lang, 1942

[albertserra]

literally no one is going to care about this but me but. seeing jean gabin and claude rains in the same picture is . SENDING MEEEEEEEEEEEE