![]() He’s an ace mechanic but a troubled individual who was one of Delly’s many lovers, until he was jilted. He begins to track down Delly through her freaky friend Quentin. Harry uses his job to get away from his home problems. At last when he found him living in a rooming house in Baltimore, all he could do is follow him into the park and watch from a distance as he read the funnies, never even attempting to meet him. Harry had searched his entire life to find his father. ![]() Arlene is not interested in her daughter, but needs her living with her because that’s the way it’s stipulated in her daughter’s trust fund. Harry has just been hired by an aging, big chested, former actress and sexually liberated divorcee, Arlene Iverson, to find her runaway teenage daughter, Delly Grastner (Melanie’s screen debut). Harry is shattered to learn that his wife Ellen is cheating when he spots her outside a movie theater with her lover. He is obsessed with always trying to solve things, whether in business or in his private life. This moody tale done in a bland Technicolor is about an ex-pro football star and now a small-time private investigator named Harry Moseby (Hackman). “A seminal modern noir work from the 1970s.”Ī seminal modern noir work from the 1970s about an innocent and lost soul making his way among liars and thieves, in this hauntingly reflective piece on America in the post-Watergate period. ![]() Title (Brazil): "Um Lance no Escuro" ("A Bid in the Dark") Note: On 26 October 2014 I saw this movie again on DVD and now my vote is eight.(director: Arthur Penn screenwriter: Alan Sharp cinematographer: Bruce Surtees editor: Dede Allen cast: Gene Hackman (Harry Moseby), Jennifer Warren (Paula), Edward Binns (Joe Ziegler), Susan Clark (Ellen Moseby), Janet Ward (Arlene Iverson), James Woods (Quentin), John Crawford (Tom Iverson), Melanie Griffith (Delly Grastner), Harris Yulin (Marty Heller), Anthony Costello (Marv Ellman) Runtime: 99 Warner Bros. It is also great to see again the gorgeous vanished actresses Jennifer Warren and Susan Clark. It is also interesting to see James Woods also in the beginning of career in a supporting role. The 18 year-old Melanie Griffith in her first credited role is extremely sexy and beautiful, undressing easily along the film. The top-notch actor Gene Hackman in the top of his successful career performs a detective that snoops the lives of other people and is incapable to see that his marriage is deteriorating. "Night Moves" is a different and complex detective story, supported by an engaging and flawed screenplay and great characters development. With the recent death of Arthur Penn, I decide to see again "Night Moves", a movie that I watched in the 80's and was forgotten in my collection. But sooner he finds that the initially missing person case is actually a complex smuggling operation of a valuable artifact. When Harry learns that Delly has died in a car crash, he suspects of Quinten. ![]() Harry and Ellen have a long conversation trying to solve their marriage problems. After seeing an accident in the sea, the reluctant Delly surprisingly accepts to return to Los Angeles with Harry to live with her mother. Harry is welcomed by Paula (Jennifer Warren), who works with Tom in a boat and has an open relationship with him. Then he visits the stuntman Marv Ellman (Anthony Costello) and the stunt coordinator Joey Ziegler (Ed Binn) and follows the new lead, heading to Florida Keys, where Delly would be living with her stepfather Tom Iverson (John Crawford). Meanwhile, Harry finds that his wife Ellen Moseby (Susan Clark) is cheating him and he has difficulties to handle the situation. Harry discovers that the runaway girl has a promiscuous life and uses drugs, and he tracks down her last boyfriend Quinten (James Woods), who works as a mechanic on the sets. In Los Angeles, the private detective and former athlete Harry Moseby (Gene Hackman) is hired by the retired obscure Hollywood actress Arlene Iverson (Janet Ward) to find her 16 year-old missing daughter Delly Grastner (Melanie Griffith). ![]()
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