![]() He confronts her lover, Marty (Harris Yulin), and they have an emotional discussion that culminates in Harry grabbing him by the collar. In one of the 1975 film’s early scenes, Harry discovers his wife, Ellen (Susan Clark), is having an affair. He is also a former professional football player and is recognized by most of the film’s characters for this past, so a certain masculine cachet precedes him. This Noirvember, get to know the leading man of this underrated ’70s gem and see how he measures up to the icons of the genre that came before him.Īrthur Penn‘s Night Moves stars Gene Hackman in one of the finest performances of his career as Harry Moseby, an LA private eye operating his own less-than-prestigious firm. In this entry, we take on a missing person’s case with the private eye of Night Moves. ![]() The titles celebrated here exemplify the style and substance of cinema’s grimiest, most-relatable underbelly. It works as about two thrillers.Welcome to The Noirvember Files, a new series dropping the spotlight on essential film noir selections. By the movie's end, and especially during its last shock of recognition, we've been through a wringer. These are all the trademarks of the Lew Archer novels by Ross MacDonald especially the little-girl-lost theme, and Alan Sharp's screenplay uses them infinitely better than "The Drowning Pool" did - even though that was actually based on a Macdonald book. The plot involves former and present lovers of the girl and her mother, sunken treasure (yes, sunken treasure), conflicts across the generations and murders more complex by far than they seem at first. Miss Warren creates a character so refreshingly eccentric, so sexy in such an unusual way, that it's all the movie can do to get past her without stopping to admire. The mistress is played by a relatively unknown actress and sometime singer named Jennifer Warren, who has the cool gaze and air of competence and tawny hair of that girl in the Winston ads who smokes for pleasure and creates waves of longing in men from coast to coast. And from the moment he sets eyes on the stepfather's mistress, the movie, which has been absorbing anyway, really takes off. Harry traces the missing girl to her stepfather, a genial pilot in the Florida Keys, and goes there to bring her back. ![]() His confrontation with the man, like so many scenes in the movie, is done with dialog so blunt in its truthfulness that the characters really do escape their genre. Harry takes the case, pausing only long enough to track down his own missing wife - who is, it turns out, having a not especially important, affair with a man with a beach house in Malibu. ![]() He's a private detective for reasons, vaguely hinted at, involving his childhood.Ī Hollywood divorcee, clinging to the last shreds of a glamor that once won her a movie director (and half the other men in town, she claims) hires him to trace down her missing daughter. He's a former pro football player and a man of considerable intelligence, whose wife ( Susan Clark) runs an antique business. The eye this time is named Harry Moseby, perhaps with a nod toward Hackman's great performance as Harry Caul in " The Conversation," perhaps not. ![]()
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