Director Frank Borzage suffuses a noir idiom with this own brand of unadulterated romanticism in his last great film. Dane Clark stars as an alienated young man haunted by his father’s crimes who finds himself hunted by the law after killing a local bully in a fight. Wracked by guilt, he nevertheless seems poised for redemption when he falls for his victim’s fiancée (Gail Russell).
Production: Chas. K. Feldman Group Productions, Inc.; Marshall Grant Pictures. Distribution: Republic Pictures Corp. Producer: Charles Haas. Director: Frank Borzage. Based on the novel Moonrise by Theodore Strauss. Screenwriter: Charles Haas. Cinematographer: John L. Russell. Production Design: Lionel Banks. Editor: Harry Keller. Music: William Lava. With: Dane Clark, Gail Russell, Ethel Barrymore, Allyn Joslyn, Rex Ingram. 35mm, b/w, 90 min.
