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The Moonlighter (1953) ** 1/2 (out of 4) A rather bizarre Western starts off with a huge bang but then slowly dies into melodrama. Fred MacMurray plays a man believed dead but he shows back up at his mother's house swearing vengeance on what's happened to him. He then realizes that his former love (Barbara Stanwyck) is now seeing his younger ...
Sombras tenebrosas es una película dirigida por Roy Rowland con Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Ward Bond, William Ching .... Año: 1953. Título original: The Moonlighter. Sinopsis: Wes Anderson es un ladrón de ganado que está encarcelado esperando juicio. Cuando un grupo de pistoleros pretende lincharle, consigue escapar y reencontrarse con su antigua novia, pareciendo que van a ...
Mark Franklin December 13, 2015 1950s. Fred MacMurray plays Wes Anderson, a cowpoke “inpatient for money,” in his own words. He’s thrown in jail for moonlighting — stealing cattle by moonlight. But when riders from a local ranch show up, they lynch the wrong man. Wes organizes the man’s funeral as though the man in the coffin is Wes ...
The Moonlighter was shot in 3-D, a popular novelty during the mid-1950s. Also, the movie is notable as the first of the Stanwyck Westerns in which she took a dominant role in the action scenes to prove herself the equal (if not superior) of any man, fighting, riding, shooting and tumbling about with the best of them -- and often performing the stunts herself.
Here in Roy Rowland's 1953 Western, originally released in 3-D, he partners up with Barbara Stanwyck nearly a decade after they starred together in Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity, ... MacMurray plays Moonlighter Wes Anderson, who rustles cattle under the light of the moon, hence a Moonlighter.
1953. 1 hr 17 min. 5.8 (677) The Moonlighter, a western drama film released in 1953, is a story of a rancher, Wes Anderson (Fred MacMurray) who returns to his hometown and reunites with his ex-lover, Rela (Barbara Stanwyck). In the town, Wes finds out that his old friend, Tom (Ward Bond), is now the sheriff and has been leading the efforts to ...
The Moonlighter Released Sep 19, 1953 1h 15m Western List Reviews 22% Audience Score 50+ Ratings Wes Anderson (Fred MacMurray) is caught cattle rustling and promptly jailed.
