Moonlighter, The

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  • Moonlighter, The -- Convoluted Western in which a rustler (Fred MacMurray) escapes while cowboys lynch the wrong man, then pulls a bank job which leaves his kid brother (William Ching) dead and himself at the mercy of a murderous gunman (Ward Bond) until the rustler's former girlfriend (Barbara Stanwyck) intervenes. Directed by Roy Rowland, the movie has some good action sequences, including Stanwyck being swept down a waterfall into the rapids, but they can't save the sour story and its muddled plot. Stylized violence, romantic complications and a tacked-on moral ending. (A-II) (br) ( 1953 )




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    A-I -- general patronage;
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    Note: Some movies previously were designated A-IV. Older films with this classification should be regarded as classified L.

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