![]() Tom Iverson admits killing Quentin to Harry before knocking himself out by ramming his head into a pole. Harry finds Quentin dead in the water (not hyperbole). Harry believes Quentin rigged Ellman's plane to crash, and rigged the car Joey was driving that killed Delly, because he thought Quentin knew that Delly knew that he rigged Ellman's plane. Shortly after, Delly dies in a failed car stunt with Joey Ziegler driving. (She used to do the horizontal tango with Quentin). ![]() Delly does tell Quentin she saw Ellman dead. Marv Ellman is found dead in the water (not hyperbole) by Delly, who high tails it back home with Harry to her mother, without telling Harry who it was she saw dead. Tom Iverson (John Crawford) and Paula (Jennifer Warren) live together and work a charter fishing (and smuggling) operation in Florida. Joey Ziegler (Edward Binns) and Quentin (James Woods) often work together. Marv Ellman (Anthony Costello) has done the horizontal tango with both mother Arlene and daughter Delly, though not at the same time. Harry is hired by Arlene Iverson (Janet Ward) to return her runaway daughter Delly Grastner (Melanie Griffith) home. Harry doesn't know any of the other players he comes across until he meets them for the first time. Marty Heller was also the name of my pharmacist when I was a kid. Ellen is cheating on Harry with Marty Heller (Harris Yulin). Harry's marriage to Ellen (Susan Clark) is on the rocks. ![]() So here's what we know: Harry Moseby (Gene Hackman) is a private detective. OK, I watched the movie twice and read a whole bunch of the reviews posted here. Reviewed by classicsoncall 7 / 10 "You mean you're gonna solve the case and find the boodle?" True, there's a bit of exciting action, but it's smothered under reams of dull talk. I expected a lot more drama from Arthur Penn. Yes, Night Moves is a film to see yet a third time! OTHER VIEWS: A confused and confusing plot, realistically acted, but - aside from one or two moments - directed in a disappointingly ordinary fashion. ![]() It's the characters and the atmosphere that count, Night Moves assembles some great characters, very cleverly and skillfully played and creates a powerful atmosphere abetted by the sharp location shooting by Bruce Surtees, the music score, and the film industry background that runs underneath it all. However to judge it on the shortcomings of the plot, is to do the film a grave disservice. I've seen the film twice now and I still can't follow it and it still doesn't make sense. And as too in Ross Macdonald, the plot is damned difficult to follow, part of the reason for this being that it is not regarded as all that important, merely a means to sociological and anthropological ends. It's a world in which nobody is as friendly as they seem on the surface, where the thickly-veiled threat is often followed through by naked action. All the characteristics and typical Ross Macdonald touches were there - from the snappy dialogue (when asked to My Night With Maud, the hero replies that seeing a Rohmer film is like watching paint dry when asked to share the tub with a Hollywood hot-light, the hero replies that he'll keep it in mind for when he's feeling really dirty when the hero asks Paula, as a plane lands outside the cabin, "Is that Tom now?", she comes back, "It isn't Lindberg!") to the technique of using a multi-stranded, multi-plotted detective story to pull away seamy layer after seamy layer of Los Angeles "society". Reviewed by JohnHowardReid 6 / 10 The world of Ross Macdonald!Īs the story unfolded, I assumed I was watching the filmization of a Ross Macdonald novel. ![]()
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