Moonrise
HER ARMS...HER LOVE...HIS ONLY ESCAPE FROM A HERITAGE OF HATE!
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- Drama
Overview
Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, a man is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most persistent tormentor. As the police close in around him, he makes a desperate bid for the love of the dead man’s girlfriend, a schoolteacher who sees the wounded soul behind his aggression.
Keywords
- swamp
- guilt
- dead father
- self-defense
- film noir
- difficult childhood
- childhood trauma
- harassment
- righteous rage
- accidental killing
- surrender
- bully victim
- hiding from the police
- criminal father
- child raised by grandmother
- execution by hanging
- social stigma
- sins of the father
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- October 1, 1948
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Republic Pictures
- Cast
- Dane Clark,Gail Russell,Ethel Barrymore,Allyn Joslyn,Rex Ingram,Harry Morgan,David Street,Selena Royle,Harry Carey Jr.,Irving Baconand 40 more
- Director
- Frank Borzage
- Writer
- Charles F. Haas,Ted Strauss
- Producer
- Marshall Grant,Charles F. Haas
- Cinematography
- John L. Russell
- Music
- William Lava
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0040607