Moontide (1942) Ida Lupino, Jean Gabin, Thomas Mitchell and Claude Rains

After blacking out from an allnight drinking binge, dock worker Bobo (Jean Gabin) wakes up in a decrepit shack on a San Pablo Bay barge. The barge s owner, fisherman Takeo (Victor Sen Yung), reminds him how they met the previous night and that he agreed to work for Takeo. Bobo does not remember the encounter and intends to leave. A police boat passes, and hearing that the police are searching for the murderer of local barfly Pop Kelly (Arthur Aylesworth), who was strangled to death sometime during Bobo s drinking spree, causes Bobo to put the brakes on his plans to go. He is afraid he may have killed the man due to drunken violence he has been capable of in the past.