Blood on the Moon (1948)
Director: Robert Wise
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
A bevy of late '40s RKO talent, including ace cameraman Nick Musuraca, combine to make an intriguing noir Western. A complex tale of duplicity and split loyalties is played out against a noir backdrop of low-ceilinged bars and rain-soaked windswept darkness. Mitchum delivers his customarily immaculate, stoned performance as a reluctant hired gun duped into heading a trumped-up homesteaders' revolt, and Bel Geddes plays the spunky cowgirl who engages him in erotic gun-play.Author: NA
Cast & crew
Director: Robert Wise
Producer: Theron Warth
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Preston, Walter Brennan, Tom Tyler, Harry Carey Jr full cast
Genre(s): Westerns
Duration: 88 mins
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