It runs through the film, his inability to solve the fracture in his life. Harry’s childhood haunts him, his family was broken. They wind up in bed, even though they’ve been separated.
There is a message on his answering machine from her, but it is interrupted by a visit from his wife. Harry learns that Delly has gotten a SAG card to work as an extra. Harry has decided to close his agency, he tells her. They are in the bedroom as Harry makes himself at home. Harry then visits the beach home (see, someone lives at the beach) of his wife’s boyfriend. Delly is dropped back into a bad scene with her mother, which Harry observes as he drives away.
#NIGHT MOVES MOVIE FULL#
The film is full of misdirection and people simply missing what is in front of them.ĭelly returns to her mother and Harry gets paid for the job. Then Paula seduces Harry with a sad story about the Kennedys. They leave a marker for the Coast Guard to find in the morning. Harry and Paulaīefore they leave, they go diving in the ocean where they discover a wrecked plane with a body. Harry confronts Delly who refuses to go back. Delly is there, Tom is her father-figure, but it’s a bit more twisted than that. Harry travels there to see if Delly has taken refuge there, where he becomes intertwined with Paula (Jennifer Warren), Tom’s girlfriend. The answer might involve Tom Iverson, the ex-husband, and Delly’s stepfather, who currently runs a fishing business in Florida.
#NIGHT MOVES MOVIE MOVIE#
Ziegler knows the mother from the movie business. Harry befriends the stunt coordinator, Joey Ziegler (Edward Binns), on the movie set. Marv was involved with both the daughter and the mother. It takes Harry to New Mexico to a film location to a stuntman, Marv Ellman, who the daughter Delly (Melanie Griffith) was with. His one lead to the daughter is Quinton (James Woods), who works on the fringe of the movie business. Joey Ziegler meets Harry on the film set. Harry says he regrets it and he wasn’t even playing. The other chess player didn’t see the moves and lost he always regretted it. Later he show her knight moves that won a game. Harry plays chess in his car with no one. One team is just losing slower than the other.” The dialogue in this era was quite interesting: “Who’s winning?” “Nobody. It seems she is trying to get his attention she’s crticial of his life but never reveals why she strayed. Harry then confronts the wife, who is disappointed he didn’t ask her first, or join them after the movie since he was there. The boyfriend doesn’t view the affair as serious, and tries to goad him into a fight. He confronts the boyfriend (Harris Yulin), who turns the encounter on an examination of Harry’s life from the intimate details the wife told him. He tails them after they get out of the movie. She’s having an affair that Harry finds out at the beginning of the film. In the film’s featurette, Penn described Hackman’s character as at odds with everyone around him. Penn’s films included T he Miracle Worker, Alice’s Restaurant, Little Big Man and The Missouri Breaks. The film’s music was slight, but effective, a jazzy score provided by Michael Small.ĭirector Arthur Penn had worked with Hackman on Bonnie and Clyde. Surtees often worked with Eastwood in the era. Surtees worked with the contrast of light and dark, good at highlighting his subjects in a sea of blackness.
Harry and his wife at opposite ends of the spectrum.īruce Surtees the “prince of darkness” was the director or photography on the film. Harry’s research tells him it’s important for her to get the daughter back, income from the daughters trust is all she lives on. He takes a case to find a former actresses’s daughter, 16 years old. was also named Harry but he lived in a split level home with his wife, who was cheating on him.Ī former football player, Harry runs a one-man agency, and his wife, Ellen (Susan Clark) keeps trying to get him to close it and take a job with a bigger firm, which he snidely calls an information business. Harry O moved up from San Diego and he also lived on the beach. Jim Rockford lived at the beach in a trailer in a parking lot. Arthur Pennīeing a private detective in Los Angeles in the early 70s wasn’t easy, but it was scenic. This is a terrific film, it’s dark and messy, and the ending is disappointing. Gene Hackman rarely has a misstep, well, this is not one of them.
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