Gene Hackman plays Harry Moseby, a jaded private detective hunting for the missing teenage daughter of a retired Hollywood actress. In terms of plot and character there really isn’t much to see here, or nothing new at any rate. Since then, The Long Goodbye has been rerated upwards to join Chinatown in the pantheon, and now it looks as Night Moves is also in the process of being re-appraised (though Roger Ebert wasn’t alone in praising it to the skies on its release). Of the bunch only Chinatown was a proper box office and critical hit, and even then some critics were a bit sniffy (the New York Times didn’t go a bundle). All three are neo-noirs recalling the era of Raymond Chandler, Sam Spade and Humphrey Bogart. I know I would have." If he is rescued, he'll regret not solving this case sooner for the rest of his life.Arthur Penn’s 1975 movie Night Moves sits snugly alongside two other films made about the same time – Polanski’s Chinatown (which went into production in the same month in 1973) and Altman’s The Long Goodbye, which had opened earlier that year. He must have regretted it every day of his life. As Harry had said about that chess player, "He didn't see it. Harry is left alone, on a boat that's going round in circles and is angry with himself for not seeing this plot sooner. Then again, since Joey killed Dilly, I don't think he'd have any problems offing Harry too. As his plane is sinking he kind of apologizes to Harry. He doesn't know it's Harry on the boat instead of Tom. It got too dangerous for Joey - he wants to get rid of all his team. While Paula is diving to retrieve the artifact, Joey shows up flying a plane and kills Paula, then tries to kill the boat owner, Tom. He makes Paula take him out on a boat ride to the submerged plane. Harry goes to Florida to investigate too, beats Tom senseless and discovers half this plot from Paula. Quentin smells something fishy and goes to Florida to investigate. She's a dangerous witness to Joey, who gets her killed during a stunt. Harry takes Dilly back to LA.ĭilly tells her friends Quentin and Joey that the corpse she saw during the dive was Marv's. Tom and Paula tell Harry they'll call the coast guard, but don't for obvious reasons. During a dive, Dilly finds the plane and recognizes Marv. Things go wrong when Marv has an accident and dies while transporting an artifact. Arleen needs to have Dilly back to get her monthly alimony. Therefore, he makes Arleen hire Harry Moseby to fetch her back. This upsets Nick as a horny teenager might ruin the deal they have going on. Marv Ellman flies them into the US and drops them off in Florida to be picked up by Tom Iverson and Paula.Īll is fine until Tom's stepdaughter (Dilly) leaves her mother, Arleen, to go live with him. He buys these items from stunt director Joey Ziegler who has a neat operation going on using stuntmen to get them from Yucatan. Nick is a collector of pre-Columbian artifacts, illegal to obtain. Read the following right after you watch the movie. Roger Ebert said understanding the entire plot of this film is missing the point, and he's probably right. After Dellamorte Dellamore/Cemetery Man, I'm going to give my take on this obscure classic.
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