MOONRISE - GAIL RUSSELL - 1948 - RARE DVD - FRANK BORZAGE

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 bullying and arrogance are made worse (and more galling) by the fact that he's the son of the town banker (and its richest man).

Directed By: Frank Borzage

Written By: Charles F. Haas, Theodore Strauss, Charles S. Haas

CAST: DANE CLARK, GAIL RUSSELL, ALLYN JOSLYN