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The Moonlighter
The Moonlighter is a 1953 American 3D Western film directed by Roy Rowland and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray and Ward Bond. Distributed by Warner Bros., it premiered alongside the 1953 Looney Tunes 3-D Bugs Bunny cartoon, Lumber Jack-Rabbit and the 3-D Lippert short, Bandit Island.
Wes Anderson (MacMurray) has been "moonlighting," rustling cattle at night under the moon. Awaiting trial in jail, a lynch mob led by rancher Alex Prince breaks in and accidentally hangs the wrong man due to a mixup from a cell change during a jail cleaning. Wes escapes.
Rela (Stanwyck), his former sweetheart, after a 5-year absence by Wes, is now involved with his younger brother Tom, who works in a bank. Tom has always admired Wes. Wes seeks vengeance on the lynch party and begins killing some of Prince's hands who lynched the innocent man. Wes is wounded by one of Prince's men and goes back home, where Tom lives with their mother, to recuperate.
Rela tells Wes she's going to marry Tom and asks Wes not to corrupt Tom and ruin their plans. But then Tom is fired from the bank on the same day that Cole Gardner, an outlaw, persuades Wes to rob the bank. Tom decides to join them. Rela warns Wes that if any harm comes to Tom, she will hold him responsible.
During the robbery, Wes and Cole get away with the money, but Tom is shot and killed. A posse is formed and Rela demands to be deputized and help bring back Wes dead or alive. Cole double-crosses his partner, taking the money and leaving Wes tied up. Rela encounters Cole on the trail, outflanking and shooting him. She then finds Wes tied up, taking him prisoner.
On the way back to town, Rela slips in a waterfall and nearly drowns. Wes saves her life. Ashamed of his ways, Wes offers to ride back to town alongside Rela to turn himself in and accept his fate. Wes asks Rela to wait for him and she says she will.
The railroad scenes were filmed on the Sierra Railroad in Tuolumne County, California.
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The Moonlighter
The Moonlighter is a 1953 American 3D Western film directed by Roy Rowland and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray and Ward Bond. Distributed by Warner Bros., it premiered alongside the 1953 Looney Tunes 3-D Bugs Bunny cartoon, Lumber Jack-Rabbit and the 3-D Lippert short, Bandit Island.
Wes Anderson (MacMurray) has been "moonlighting," rustling cattle at night under the moon. Awaiting trial in jail, a lynch mob led by rancher Alex Prince breaks in and accidentally hangs the wrong man due to a mixup from a cell change during a jail cleaning. Wes escapes.
Rela (Stanwyck), his former sweetheart, after a 5-year absence by Wes, is now involved with his younger brother Tom, who works in a bank. Tom has always admired Wes. Wes seeks vengeance on the lynch party and begins killing some of Prince's hands who lynched the innocent man. Wes is wounded by one of Prince's men and goes back home, where Tom lives with their mother, to recuperate.
Rela tells Wes she's going to marry Tom and asks Wes not to corrupt Tom and ruin their plans. But then Tom is fired from the bank on the same day that Cole Gardner, an outlaw, persuades Wes to rob the bank. Tom decides to join them. Rela warns Wes that if any harm comes to Tom, she will hold him responsible.
During the robbery, Wes and Cole get away with the money, but Tom is shot and killed. A posse is formed and Rela demands to be deputized and help bring back Wes dead or alive. Cole double-crosses his partner, taking the money and leaving Wes tied up. Rela encounters Cole on the trail, outflanking and shooting him. She then finds Wes tied up, taking him prisoner.
On the way back to town, Rela slips in a waterfall and nearly drowns. Wes saves her life. Ashamed of his ways, Wes offers to ride back to town alongside Rela to turn himself in and accept his fate. Wes asks Rela to wait for him and she says she will.
The railroad scenes were filmed on the Sierra Railroad in Tuolumne County, California.
On MysteryFile.com, Jonathan Lewis wrote: