Then she agrees to let Harry take her back to L.A. until Harry and Paula take Delly on a diving trip (Paula’s supposed to be an experienced diver but she lets Harry, who’s never dived at all, help her check out her SCUBA equipment) and Delly discovers a decayed but still recognizably human body under water. The two are shielding Delly from her mom, and she’s resisting going back to L.A. Moseby traces Delly to Florida, where her ex-stepfather Tom Iverson (John Crawford) is running a boat charter service with his girlfriend Paula (Jennifer Warren), whose combination of sexiness and spunk easily makes her the film’s most interesting character. ![]() Only Delly is a total slut who seems, as my late partner John Gabrish said of me, to be interested in anything with two legs and something between them: she ditches Quentin for the older but butcher stunt pilot flying the plane, and later when the plane crashes Quentin is suspected of sabotaging it. The two big themes of Night Moves are movies and sex: Delly is shooting to follow her mom’s career path into films (as the real Melanie Griffith followed her mother, ‘Tippi’ Hedren, and Grifflth’s daughter Dakota Johnson has become the third generation of her family to be a movie star) - at one point someone announces she’s just got her card in the Screen Extras Guild - and she follows her creepy biker boyfriend Quentin (a young and almost unrecognizable James Woods) to New Mexico because he’s a mechanic and he’s needed to keep the period cars and planes (the film features a white biplane trailing white clouds of a toxic substance in a scene obviously “borrowed,” shall we say, from Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest). (Does he borrow them? Rent them? Does he not want to be “outed” as a private investigator because if he drove the same car all the time, like most people, someone would recognize the car and “out” him?) For some reason screenwriter Sharp never explains, Harry seems to drive a different car in each sequence, and it’s not like he has a vehicle in every port, either: he’ll sometimes drive two different cars in the same city on the same day. (where when he’s not working for pay he’s surveilling his own wife Ellie, played by Susan Clark, to prove she’s having an affair) to New Mexico and ultimately to Florida. (According to, Night Moves was her third film and she was 18 at the time she made it, though the character is specified in Alan Sharp’s script as being 16.) The search takes Harry from L.A. last night I screened Charles a quite interesting movie from my backlog of home-recorded DVD’s I’d been able to make until the start of 2016, when Cox Cable changed to an “all-digital” service that doesn’t allow you to make recordings (unless you pay them extra for a so-called “DVR” that’s cloud-based instead of using physical storage media): Night Moves, a 1975 neo- noir thriller starring Gene Hackman as L.A.-based private detective Harry Moseby, who gets hired by faded starlet Arlene Iverson (Janet Ward) to find her missing 16-year-old daughter Delly - short for “Delilah” because her dad was a producer who specialized in Biblical films - played by a young Melanie Griffith in what must have been one of her earliest credits. Copyright © 2020 by Mark Gabrish Conlan Īt 9 p.m."Game of Thrones," season six, episodes 3 and 4: ".Joe Biden: Long Road to the White House (CNN, 2020).Columbo: "Murder Under Glass" (Levinson-Link Produ. ![]() Deranged Granny (Imoto Productions, Lifetime, 2020).Pool Boy Nightmare (The Asylum, Lifetime, 2020).Sinfidelity (Curmudgeon Films, Storyworks Entertai."Game of Thrones," season six, episodes five and s.55th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards (dick."Game of Thrones," season six, episodes seven and.The Secret Life of a Celebrity Surrogate (Indy Ent.Her Deadly Sugar Daddy (Cartel Pictures, Reel One.77th Annual Emmy Awards (National Academy of Telev."Game of Thrones," season six, episodes nine and t.Life as We Know It (Warner Bros., Village Roadshow.The Doctor Takes a Wife (Columbia, 1940).Hollywood Story (Universal-International, 1951). ![]() ![]() Undertow (Universal-International, 1949).Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleading Scandal (Fox Tele.
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