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4IV'Woodward - letters aDoui her straytngs Naturally, there's a murder, and then talk about oil on the property and the Hamilton heavy wants the oil Insert a psychotic murderous teenager into the mix and take it from thereAnd there is a drowning pool though the title is somewhat deceptiveBUT \f The DrowningPool is complex. Night Moves is intricate even g more complicated — and able solutely fascinating id Gene Hackman is Harry Moseby and he is totally be of lievable as a compulsive detective who. when he isn t working on a case attempts to use some of the same methods to solve his own personal problems - in this case a wife who's involved in an affairMuch of the credit has to go to director Arthur Penn, who has surrounded Hackman with more believable people than a dozen privateeve movies usually containa . ■Df IT BEGINS, simply enoughr- with Moseby Hackman i hired to find a missing teenagerW of a former movie queen She needs the girl because of an inheritance to the daughter actually pays the bills The girl. interesting enough, is also played by Melanie Griffin in a role simi-ie lar. but more developed than in The Drowning Pool Melanie is - by the way -the daughter of actress TippiHedren Hackman finds the girl and brings her back andthen his troubles really begin When the girl is killed, he finds himself drawn back into the case and into two more ” murders, and smuggling One •n might suspect no good can come 01 all this and you'd .. be correct° If there's anyone in thefilm that can match Hackman it has to be Jennifer barren who plays a scorched Key West former teacher-hooker with an electric sf»nsuality• The Drowning Pool rated PG showing in FortWorth Night Moves rat-lnc ed and deserving of) R atPioneer 4-O K CARTER3539IFitlnc Workshop
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Arlington Citizen Journal
Arlington, Texas, US
Fri, Jul 11, 1975
Page 14
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