***SPOILER*** You've got to hand it to BoBo the Sailorman , Jean Gabin, he knows what he wants and goes all out to get it no matter what the dangers and consequence's are.
BoBo's heavy drinking and non-stop womanizing would have lead to a situation that would have gotten him locked up behind bars or in an early grave. That is until that fateful evening when BoBo ran into Anna, Ida Lupino, on he beach outside of San Pablo. Young and pretty Anna tired to pull of a "Star is Born" like suicide walk into the Pacific Ocean where a gallant and, for once, sober BoBo saved her life. Taking Anna into his docked fishing boat, as well as home, Bobo soon falls for the sweet and confused woman after she cooked him up eggs easy side up, just the way he likes them.
More or less a rootless and solitary traveling man BoBo gets hooked on Anna and decides to settle down and marry her. It's then when things get a bit strained with BoBo's friend Tiny, Thomas Mitchell, feeling that Anna is breaking up a beautiful friendship, him & BoBo, and decides to put the screws on both BoBo and his future bride.
Tiny had planned to travel with BoBo upstate from the little dinky sea-town of San Pablo to bigger and better things in beautiful and scenic San Francisco. With Anna coming on the scene Tiny is now forced to travel, with no money for transportation, upstate alone and in his mind this just is not to happen as long as he can help it. It turns out that during his last drunken episode BoBo lost his memory in what he did the last 12 or so hours. It was during that lost time in BoBo's life a friend of his Old Pop Kelly, Arthur Aylesworth, was found strangled to death. It also turned out that Pop's sailor cap was found by BoBo's and Tiny's friend Nutsy, Clude Rains, in BoBo's boat!
Tiny knowing how both crazy and powerful BoBo is when he's on the sauce, he once killed a man in self-defense while being dead drunk, is sure that BoBo did Old Pop Kelly in. With that knowledge at his disposal Tiny plans to blackmail BoBo into dropping his future bride Anna and go off to the city by the bay with him as his life-long gofer and parasite; Tiny has been living off BoBo's earning as a sailor and longshoreman for some ten years.
One thing that soon comes out about this strange relationship, Tiny & BoBo, is that Bobo isn't the only one of the hard-drinking pair who has a habit of drinking himself into never-never land. Tiny also can put it away by the bottle, not just the shot-glass, an is a bit less restrained then BoBo is when he's out cold from an all night drinking session.
**SPOILER ALERT***In fact where exactly was Tiny when Pop Kelly was strangled to death? That's the question that Anna asked a barley on his feet, from drinking, Tiny as he crashed into her and BoBo's boat on their wedding night! Bobo, an excellent mechanic, being away at the time fixing his friend Dr. Brothers',Jerome Cowan, boat came too late to save Anna, who was left beaten and unconscious, from Tiny's drunken actions. But an angry and uncontrollable BoBo wasn't too late to track Tiny down, on the sea rocks, and have him pay for everything he did with the raging waters of the Pacific Ocean doing the job for him
The relationship between BoBo and Tiny was far more interesting then that of BoBo's and Anna. I got the impression that Tiny was really interested in BoBo as a, without going any deeper into the subject, partner in life more then anything else. Being with BoBo for years Tiny got very attached to the hard drinking sailor and his sudden, after being a free man all these years, wanting to get married and settle down may have well been too much for poor confused, as well as feeling rejected, Tiny to take.
BoBo's heavy drinking and non-stop womanizing would have lead to a situation that would have gotten him locked up behind bars or in an early grave. That is until that fateful evening when BoBo ran into Anna, Ida Lupino, on he beach outside of San Pablo. Young and pretty Anna tired to pull of a "Star is Born" like suicide walk into the Pacific Ocean where a gallant and, for once, sober BoBo saved her life. Taking Anna into his docked fishing boat, as well as home, Bobo soon falls for the sweet and confused woman after she cooked him up eggs easy side up, just the way he likes them.
More or less a rootless and solitary traveling man BoBo gets hooked on Anna and decides to settle down and marry her. It's then when things get a bit strained with BoBo's friend Tiny, Thomas Mitchell, feeling that Anna is breaking up a beautiful friendship, him & BoBo, and decides to put the screws on both BoBo and his future bride.
Tiny had planned to travel with BoBo upstate from the little dinky sea-town of San Pablo to bigger and better things in beautiful and scenic San Francisco. With Anna coming on the scene Tiny is now forced to travel, with no money for transportation, upstate alone and in his mind this just is not to happen as long as he can help it. It turns out that during his last drunken episode BoBo lost his memory in what he did the last 12 or so hours. It was during that lost time in BoBo's life a friend of his Old Pop Kelly, Arthur Aylesworth, was found strangled to death. It also turned out that Pop's sailor cap was found by BoBo's and Tiny's friend Nutsy, Clude Rains, in BoBo's boat!
Tiny knowing how both crazy and powerful BoBo is when he's on the sauce, he once killed a man in self-defense while being dead drunk, is sure that BoBo did Old Pop Kelly in. With that knowledge at his disposal Tiny plans to blackmail BoBo into dropping his future bride Anna and go off to the city by the bay with him as his life-long gofer and parasite; Tiny has been living off BoBo's earning as a sailor and longshoreman for some ten years.
One thing that soon comes out about this strange relationship, Tiny & BoBo, is that Bobo isn't the only one of the hard-drinking pair who has a habit of drinking himself into never-never land. Tiny also can put it away by the bottle, not just the shot-glass, an is a bit less restrained then BoBo is when he's out cold from an all night drinking session.
**SPOILER ALERT***In fact where exactly was Tiny when Pop Kelly was strangled to death? That's the question that Anna asked a barley on his feet, from drinking, Tiny as he crashed into her and BoBo's boat on their wedding night! Bobo, an excellent mechanic, being away at the time fixing his friend Dr. Brothers',Jerome Cowan, boat came too late to save Anna, who was left beaten and unconscious, from Tiny's drunken actions. But an angry and uncontrollable BoBo wasn't too late to track Tiny down, on the sea rocks, and have him pay for everything he did with the raging waters of the Pacific Ocean doing the job for him
The relationship between BoBo and Tiny was far more interesting then that of BoBo's and Anna. I got the impression that Tiny was really interested in BoBo as a, without going any deeper into the subject, partner in life more then anything else. Being with BoBo for years Tiny got very attached to the hard drinking sailor and his sudden, after being a free man all these years, wanting to get married and settle down may have well been too much for poor confused, as well as feeling rejected, Tiny to take.