Moonrise

Directed by Frank Borzage

With Dane Clark, Gail Russell, Ethel Barrymore, Allyn Joslyn and Rex Ingram

Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, a man is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most persistent tormentor. As the police close in around him, he makes a desperate bid for the love of the dead man’s girlfriend, a schoolteacher who sees the wounded soul behind his aggression.