Moonrise
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1948
1h 30m
NR
English
Drama
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Moonrise
NR
Movie
1948
1h 30m
English
Drama
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 fiancée, a schoolteacher who sees the wounded soul behind his aggression.
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Cast
Danny Hawkins
Gilly Johnson
Grandma
Clem Otis
Mose
Billy Scripture
Ken Williams
Aunt Jessie
Jimmy Biff
Judd Jenkins
Jerry Sykes
Uncle Joe Jingle
Elmer - Soda Jerk
J.B. Sykes
Julie
Miss Simpkins
Ed Conlon
Homer Blackstone
Mr. Chandler
Coroner
Directed By: Frank Borzage
Written By: Charles F. Haas (Screenplay), Ted Strauss (Novel)
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John Chard
5 years ago
What I did was resign from the human race.
Directed by Frank Borzage and adapted from the novel by Theodore Strauss, Moonrise sees Dane Clark playing Danny Hawkins, the son of a man who was hanged for his crimes. Tormented by his father's past and bullied about it as a child, Hawkins grows into a More
Directed by Frank Borzage and adapted from the novel by Theodore Strauss, Moonrise sees Dane Clark playing Danny Hawkins, the son of a man who was hanged for his crimes. Tormented by his father's past and bullied about it as a child, Hawkins grows into a More
CinemaSerf
2 years ago
This is actually quite a complex psychological thriller which very much looks at the sins of the father being visited on the child. In this case Dane Clark is "Danny Hawkins" whose father was hanged for murder. Persecuted and shunned by his peers as a youth, he is finally starting to get his life in More
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