Blood on the Moon

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Blood on the Moon

(1948)

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Mitchum plays drifter cowboy Jim Garry. After receiving a job-offer letter from smooth-talking Tate Riling (Preston), Garry rides into an Indian reservation and finds himself in the middle of a feud between cattle ranchers and homesteaders. What Garry doesn't realize is that Riling, the man he now works for, is crooked.

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Luke Short

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Lillie Hayward

Screenplay
Robert Wise

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Robert Mitchum

Jim Garry
Barbara Bel Geddes

Amy Lufton
Robert Preston

Tate Riling
Walter Brennan

Kris Barden
Phyllis Thaxter

Carol Lufton

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A review by John Chard

7.0

Written by John Chard on February 10, 2017

I can buy me that kind of friend for $75 a month and no questions asked.

Blood on the Moon is directed by Robert Wise and is adapted from a Luke Short story by Lillie Hayward and Harold Shumante. It stars Robert Mitchum, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Preston, Walter Brennan, Phyllis Thaxter, Frank Faylen, Tom Tully and Charles McGraw. Music is by Roy Webb and cinematography by Nicholas Musuraca. Story has Mitchum as drifting cowboy Jim Garry, who after receiving a job offer in the mail from old acquaintance Tate Riling (Preston), finds himself pitched in the middle of a war between cattle ranch... read the rest.

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