6.1
Shamus
1973
“Maybe he would find the girl... maybe he would find himself.”
Night Moves (1975)
June 11, 19751h 40mEN
6.7
350 votes
Overview
Private detective and former football player Harry Moseby gets hired on to what seems a standard missing person case - a former Hollywood actress wants Moseby to find and return her daughter. Harry travels to Florida to find her, but he begins to see a connection between the runaway girl, the world of Hollywood stuntmen, and a suspicious mechanic when an unsolved murder comes to light.
Director
Arthur PennWriter
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Status
Released
Original Language
Spanish
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Production Companies
Layton ProductionsHiller ProductionsWarner Bros. Pictures
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User Reviews
John Chard
9.0Take a swing at me Harry the way Sam Spade would. Night Moves is directed by Arthur Penn and written by Alan Sharp. It stars Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Susan Clark, James Woods, Melanie Griffith, Edward Binns, Harris Yulin, Kenneth Mars and Janet Ward. Music is by Michael Small and cinematography by Bruce Surtees. Former footballer turned private detective in Los Angeles Harry Moseby (Hackman), gets hired by an ageing actress to track down her trust-funded daughter Delly Grastner (Griffith), who is known to be in Florida. With his own personal life shaken by his wife's infidelity, Ha…
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Dr_Nostromo
7.067/100 A P.I. is hired to find a missing girl but there's more going on than just that. This was a thoroughly solid drama with excellent acting and writing all around. What was really nice was the P.I. Moseby character. Rather than play the stereotypical hard drinking, morally questionable guy ready for conflict, Gene Hackman gave us a genuinely nice guy full of empathy and a need to do the right thing, regardless of where it goes. Even his discovery of his wife's infidelity is treated with maturity and constraint. Really a unique character and overall, a great character study. -- DrNostrom…
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