- Title: Moonrise
- Original Title: Moonrise
- Release Date: 01/10/1948
- Tagline: HER ARMS...HER LOVE...HIS ONLY ESCAPE FROM A HERITAGE OF HATE!
- Duration:90 Min / 01:30
- Country:US
- Genre:Drama
About Film
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.
Movie Rating: 6.25
Total Votes: 71
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John Chard
7/10
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 confused and resentful man. Striking out at...
Geronimo1967
6/10
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 some sort of order when he accidentally gets...
