While she is diving for the statue, a seaplane appears Harry is sounded by gunfire and Paula killed just before the plane crashes Harry sees that the pilot is Joey Ziegler. There he finds Quintin has just been killed by Tom after a fight with the latter, Harry sets off in his boat with Paula, who explains that she, Tom, Ellman, and Quentin had been smuggling archaeological remains out of Yucatan, and admits that she was seducing Harry while Tom was diving for a statue in the wrecked plane. Hoping to save his marriage, and closing down his detective office, Harry nevertheless insists on flying back to Florida when he learns that Ellman’s death hasn’t been reported to the Coast Guard. Shortly after Harry returns Delly to Arlene, she dies in a movie car stunt with Ziegler at the wheel suspecting foul play, Harry goes to see Quintin, who reveals that Ellman was the corpse in the wrecked plane. Delly refuses to come home, until she comes across a corpse in a wrecked plane while swimming at night and changes her mind later the same night, Paula comes to Harry’s room and seduces him. There he meets Tom, and his girlfriend Paula and Delly, who appear to be involved in a ménage à trois. There is an angry scene with Ellen, just before Harry leaves leaves to look up Ellman, also meeting and befriending stuntman Joey Ziegler, who directs him to Delly’s stepfather, Tom Iverson, on the Florida keys. After speaking to Delly’s previous boyfriend Quentin, a movie stuntman who explains that she went off with Marv Ellman, another stuntman, Harry surreptitiously follows his own wife Ellen as she leaves a cinema with another man, Marty Heller, and later confronts Heller in his flat. 99 mins.įormer football star Harry Moseby, now working as a private detective, is hired by Arlene Iverson, a promiscuous former starlet, to find her runaway teenage daughter Delly. ( Stud), Susan Barrister and Larry Mitchell ( Ticket Clerks). l.p-Gene Hackman ( Harry Moseby), Jennifer Warren ( Paula), Edward Binns ( Joey Ziegler), Harris Yulin ( Marty Heller), Kenneth Mars ( Nick), Janet Ward ( Arlene Iverson), James Woods ( Quentin), Anthony Costello ( Marv Ellman), John Crawford ( Tom Iverson), Melanie Griffith ( Delly Grastner), Susan Clark ( Ellen Moseby), Ben Archibeck ( Charles), Dennis Dugan ( Boy), J. ed-Craig McKay, Robert Reitano, Richard Cirincione. This review of Night Moves appeared in the May 1975 issue of Monthly Film Bulletin.
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