

Moonrise
HER ARMS...HER LOVE...HIS ONLY ESCAPE FROM A HERITAGE OF HATE!
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.
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- Language
- English
- difficult childhood
- harassment
- self-defense
- swamp
- childhood trauma
- film noir
- guilt
- surrender
- hiding from the police
- dead father
- righteous rage
- accidental killing
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalNR1 Oct 1948
CanadaCA
- Theatrical18A1 Oct 1948
BelgiumBE
- Theatrical (limited)181 Oct 1948
FinlandFI
- TheatricalK-121 Oct 1948
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Moonrise was released on 1 October 1948.
Audience reviews
2- J7/10
John Chard
12/9/2018
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 anyone foolish enough to cross his fractured state of mind, tragedy is quic…
- C6/10
CinemaSerf
7/9/2022
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 into a fight and kills a man over a girl "Gilly" (Gail Johnson) in whom he…
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