![]() And for fans of the movie, I can’t imagine you not springing for this Blu-Ray. The disc includes a trailer and a production short from back in the day. This one has the added benefit of having been photographed by the great Bruce Surtees (who shot a number of my favorite films, from Dirty Harry to The Shootist). Seventies movies have a look all their own, and that’s preserved here flawlessly. Feel good hit of the year it ain’t.īut there’s plenty to feel good about with the new Blu-Ray from Warner Archive. Maybe it was too downbeat, maybe it was just too good, to be successful. Something called Jaws opened about the same time. Night Moves didn’t do well upon its original release. Night Moves weaves its lost girl/murder plot and character study together seamlessly, waiting for just the right moment to do so. ![]() In a lot of PI movies, the plot sort of meanders along, often a bit incoherently, towards a conclusion that tries to wrap up (almost) everything. She didn’t have a tremendous amount of screen time in that one, but she was really good. Warren also played Paul Newman’s wife Francine in Slap Shot (1977). Night Moves (1975) - (Movie Clip) She Likes Big Guys Ex-jock LA P-I Harry (Gene Hackman) with pal Nick (Kenneth Mars) picks up a tape with background on his client and her runaway daughter, listening as he drives to meet his wife (Susan Clark) after an Eric Rohmer movie, making an unpleasant discovery, in Arthur Penn’s Night Moves, 1975. Paula’s a long way from the femme fatale we’re used to, but just as dangerous. You hear a lot about this being Melanie Griffith’s first movie (and that she’s naked quite a bit), but it’s Jennifer Warren that stands out to me. This is one of Hackman’s better performances, and he isn’t lacking for great performances. His Moseby is a burned out guy you somehow can’t help but care about, even as you question a number of the choices he makes along the way. Alan Sharp’s wonderful script juggles this effortlessly. And that’s what sets this one apart - Moseby’s investigation and introspection get all twisted together before it’s over with. ![]() He turns out to be just as lost as the young girl (Melanie Griffith) he’s trying to track down. In Penn’s case, with Night Moves, it looks like he decided to make his football-player-turned-detective (with a gorgeous 1967 Mustang), Harry Moseby (Gene Hackman), every bit as messed up as the dysfunctional family he’s hired to help sort out. By this time, both noir and PI movies had seen their conventions spoofed time and time again - and each director headed in a different direction.īut with the 70s a decade marked by cynicism, doesn’t it make sense that noir would emerge from the shadows? They all seemed to drag the genres into a decade they seemed very much at odds with. Surprisingly, there were plenty of them - pictures like Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye (1973), Roman Polanski’s Chinatown (1974), Stuart Rosenberg’s The Drowning Pool (1975) and Arthur Penn’s Night Moves (1975). The Seventies were an interesting time for film noir and private eye movies. Cast: Gene Hackman (Harry Moseby), Jennifer Warren (Paula), Edward Binns (Joey Ziegler), Harris Yulin (Marty Heller), Kenneth Mars (Nick), Janet Ward (Arlene Iverson), James Woods (Quentin), Anthony Costello (Marv Ellman), John Crawford (Tom Iverson), Melanie Griffith (Delly Grastner), Susan Clark (Ellen Moseby)
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