Moonrise
1948 · 1h 30m · 6.3
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 girlfriend, a schoolteacher who sees the wounded soul behind his aggression.
Dane Clark, Gail Russell, Ethel Barrymore, Allyn Joslyn, Rex Ingram, Harry Morgan, David Street, Selena Royle, Harry Carey Jr., Irving Bacon
difficult childhood, harassment, self-defense, swamp, childhood trauma, film noir, guilt, surrender, hiding from the police, dead father, righteous rage, accidental killing, bully victim, child raised by grandmother, criminal father, execution by hanging, social stigma, sins of the father