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Moonrise

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Moonrise
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NR,1hr 30min
Genre:
Drama
Released:
January 1, 1948
Director:
Frank Borzage
Starring:
Dane Clark, Gail Russell, Ethel Barrymore  ...more
Synopsis: All of his life, Danny Hawkins (Dane Clark) has been taunted and mistreated by most of the people around him, enduring innumerable beatings and other humiliations as a boy because his father was a murderer who died on the gallows. He finds it not much better as an adult, living with his aunt in the small Virginia town of Woodville -- especially when he is contending for the attentions of young schoolteacher Gilly Johnson (Gail Russell) with his boyhood tormentor Jerry Sykes (Lloyd Bridges), whose ... Full Synopsis
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Bruce Eder, AMG Review
In 1945, with World War II drawing to a close and another upheaval in the habits of moviegoers in the offing, Republic Pictures head Herbert J. Yates recognized that the market for the B-Westerns, action films, and comedies that had kept the studio humming since the mid-'30s was in danger of drying up. He decided to mount some prestige productions and sought out the talents of major directors, writers, ... Full Review
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Dane Clark
Danny Hawkins
Gail Russell
Gilly Johnson
Ethel Barrymore
Grandma
Allyn Joslyn
Clem Otis
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