charles f. haas

Dignity and the Death Penalty: On Borzage’s ‘Moonrise’

Dignity and the Death Penalty: On Borzage’s ‘Moonrise’

In the nearly eight decades since Moonrise‘s release, Borzage’s melodrama-noir-styled meditations on social causality, dignity, and redemption have lost none of their potency.

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