Night Moves

Director: Arthur Penn Arthur Penn

Overview

Private eye Harry Moseby is hired by actress Arlene Iverson to locate her missing daughter Delly. Moseby follows a twisting trail of clues to Delly and returns her to her mother. When Delly is killed in a freak accident, Moseby investigates the girl's death and discovers that she was murdered.

Product Details

Release Date:	07/12/2005
UPC:	0012569688728
Original Release:	1975
Rating:	R
Source:	STUDIO DISTRIBUTION SERVS LLC
Region Code:	1
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono]
Language:	English
Time:	1:39:00
Sales rank:	16,373

Special Features

Closed Caption;Vintage featurette The Day of the Director; Theatrical tralier; Languages: English & Français; Subtitles: English, Français & Español (Feature Film Only)

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Gene Hackman	Harry Moseby
Susan Clark	Ellen Moseby
Jennifer Warren	Paula
Edward Binns	Joey Ziegler
Harris Yulin	Marty Heller
Kenneth Mars	Nick
Janet Ward	Arlene Iverson
James Woods	Quentin
Anthony Costello	Mary Ellman
John Crawford	Tom Iverson
Melanie Griffith	Delly Grastner
Ben Archibek	Charles
Max Gail	Tony
Victor Paul	Cop
Louis Elias	Cop,Actor
Carey Loftin	Cop
John Moio	Cop
Susan Barrister	Airline Ticket Clerk
Larry Mitchell	Airline Ticket Clerk
Shauna McCullough	Actor
Tim Haldeman	Delivery Boy
Jacque Wallace	Man
Dennis Dugan	Young Man
C.J. Hincks	Girl
Phil Altman	Crewman
Bob Templeton	Crewman
Avril Gentles	Voice
Sandra Seacat	Voice
Rene Enriquez	Voice
Simon Deckard	Actor
Michael Ebert	Voice
Michael Small	Composer

Technical Credits

Alan Sharp

Arthur Penn	Director
Alan Sharp	Screenwriter
Joe Day	Special Effects
Robert M. Sherman	Producer
Marcel Vercoutere	Special Effects

Editorial Reviews

Like Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye (1973) and Roman Polanski's Chinatown (1974), Arthur Penn's Night Moves rethinks the conventions of 1940s film noir with a 1970s sensibility. In the noir world, the L.A. lifestyles of the rich and famous masked an amoral core over which the detective could momentarily assert his ethical power; in Penn's 1970s version (as in those of Altman and Polanski), the detective cannot even manage that small a victory. The noir shadows that swathe Harry Moseby's Florida trip in Night Moves only emphasize how little he can see of what is really happening; and even what action Harry (Gene Hackman) can see is blocked by clear water and glass barriers. Increasingly less receptive to films that delved into the unethical morass of contemporary America, the audience did not embrace Night Moves as earlier ones had Penn's previous revisionist genre movies, Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and Little Big Man (1970). Still, the final image of this Penn outing indelibly sums up the quandary of a detective with some grasp of how to do the right thing, faced with a society that couldn't care less.