Moonrise

Danny Hawkins has carried the stigma of his father's execution since childhood. Raised in a small town where everyone knows what his father did, he has been taunted and excluded, and the weight of that inheritance shapes the man he becomes. When a confrontation with the bully who has tormented him for years ends in a killing, Danny goes on the run, pursued by the police and by his own conscience. At the same time, he tries to win the affection of Gilly Johnson, a schoolteacher who senses the hurt beneath his violence.

Frank Borzage directed the film, the sixth in the chronological list of his work that begins with 7th Heaven (1927), and Charles F. Haas wrote and produced it. Dane Clark and Gail Russell lead the cast, with Ethel Barrymore, Allyn Joslyn, Rex Ingram and Harry Morgan among the twenty-one credited performers. Republic Pictures produced the ninety-minute drama, which was released in October 1948.

On IMDb it holds a 7 out of 10 from roughly 3,300 votes, while the smaller TMDB sample gives it 6.3 from 78 votes. A critics' rating of 8.4 from 13 reviews is notably higher than either audience figure.