Moonrise (1948) on DVD

Actor: Dane Clark, Gail Russell, Ethel Barrymore, Allyn Joslyn, Rex Ingram, Harry Morgan, David Street, Selena Royle, Harry Carey Jr., Irving Bacon
Director: Frank Borzage
Genre: Mystery
Year: 1948
Studio: Criterion Collection
Length: 90
Released: 5/8/2018
Rating: Not Rated (MPAA Rating)
Format: DVD
Misc/Special Features: NTSC, Full Screen, Special Edition, Restored, New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack New conversation between author Hervé Dumont (Frank Borzage: The Life and Films of a Hollywood Romantic) and film historian Peter Cowie PLUS: An essay by critic Philip Kemp
Language: English
Subtitles : N/A

DESCRIPTION:

With a father having gone to the gallows, Danny Hawkins (Dane Clark) grew up with no end of stigma and bullying in his small town... and one fateful night, a fistfight with privileged, lifelong tormentor Jerry Sykes (Lloyd Bridges) turned deadly. Having successfully made an alibi, how long can he keep the truth from Jerry's fiancée Gilly (Gail Russell) or the authorities... or live with himself? Frank Borzage's absorbing, noirish melodrama also stars Ethel Barrymore, Allyn Joslyn, Rex Ingram, Harry Morgan. 90 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English (SDH); featurette. Review A small-town fable about violence and redemption, Moonrise is the final triumph of Frank Borzage, one of Hollywood’s most neglected masters. Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, young Danny (Dane Clark) is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most persistent tormenter. As the police close in around him, Danny makes a desperate bid for the love of the dead man’s fiancée (Gail Russell), a schoolteacher who sees the wounded soul behind his aggression. With this postwar comeback, Borzage recaptured the inspiration that had animated his long and audacious early career, marrying the lyrical force of his romantic sensibility with the psychological anguish of film noir in a stunning vindication of faith in the power of love.