Night moves 1975 movie youtube12/5/2023 Penn makes you feel that the more Harry does to make things right, the more things will go spiraling out of control and just go wrong. All of the actors play it real, and you forget that they are actors playing characters at times. He makes NIGHT MOVES into a nightmare, with poetic shots and a real feeling of foreboding. just with deep pools of shadow and a realistic look and feel. Not the ragged and often incompetent look of some of today’s indies, but the professional look of a studio film. Penn gives the film that glossy grit that 70s films had. He went from interesting stuff like MISSOURI BREAKS to flops like PENN & TELLER GET KILLED and directing episodes of Canadian TV series. Penn also directed THE MIRACLE WORKER and LITTLE BIG MAN and was one of those great directors of the 60s and 70s, who didn’t really fit in to the Hollywood of the 80s and 90s. The film was directed by Arthur Penn, who worked with Hackman on a little film called BONNIE AND CLYDE. He died about a year ago at 79 years old, his last credit was in 2010. He also wrote the *awful* adaptation of DAMNATION ALLEY (one of my favorite novels). Alan Sharp wrote action flicks and westerns and the TV movies about the USS Indianapolis and those sharks that Quint talks about in JAWS. He is a quiet actor who manages to convey meaty emotions without seeming to be emotional. Dialogue is great, characters are amazing, and this is one of those films like that other Hackman Harry film where you realize just how great Hackman is as an actor. It’s a brilliant script that is more about character than crime (though there’s plenty of crime), and has a bleak and ugly world view. The film was written by Alan Sharp, who would later write ROB ROY. and it isn’t so much solved as abandoned after too many people die to make solving it sensible. Because this is the 70s, the film has an ending more like CHINATOWN than a traditional detective flick. But, true to the genre, nothing is as it seems and soon some people die and Harry finds himself in the middle of a much bigger mystery involving film set accidents that may not be so accidental and scuba diving for sunken treasure (which may be drugs, drugs *are* a treasure, right?). and Harry and Paula hook up when Delly’s dad Tom Iverson (John Crawford) isn’t looking. ![]() ![]() Along the way he meets all kinds of fringe people, from Delly’s druggie ex boyfriend Quentin (an unbelievably young James Woods) to her father’s hippy girlfriend Paula (Jennifer Warren). Harry has to hunt down Delly in the back alleys of Hollywood and the run down coastal area of Florida. ![]() Each lives on an opposite coast: mother in Los Angeles and father in Florida. Runaway daughter Delly Grastner (a teenaged and perpetually topless Melanie Griffith) has a washed up ex movie star for a mother and an ex stuntman as absent father. And his wife says he’s emotionally distant and doesn’t trust anyone (which is true). The other guy is some damned cripple with a cane, can’t really kick his ass without looking like an jerk. and she gets mad at him for following her. sees her with another guy (the always great Harris Yulin). NIGHT MOVES (1975) starring Gene Hackman as mopey private detective Harry Moseby, who is mopey because he thinks his wife (Susan Clark) is cheating on him. Starring: Gene Hackman, Harris Yulin, Melanie Griffith, Jennifer Warren.
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