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'Night Moves' is all about just thatBY ROSALIND LISTONNEW YORK (UPI)—“Night Moves is s powerful, yet disturbing. Warner? Bros, film about a Hollywood detective whose search for truth in the land of silicone and sex ends in brutal disillusionment.Harry Moseby (Gene Hackman), a former pro football player turned private eye. is hired by Arlene Iverson (Janet Ward I, a Hollywood hasheen, to find her missing daughter. Dally (Melanie Griffith).It’s another run-of-the-mill case for Moseby. who is a fifth-string Sam Spade. He follows Delly's trail from bed to bed as the 16-year-old lolita tries to even the score with her mother by seducing the aging matron's ex-lovers.emcAlonal isolation.MOSEBY SOLVES the case, by far the biggest in his career. But before he can expose the murders connected with a smuggling ring, he Is shrt-a wounded man alone in a power boat speeding aimlessly through the ocean off the Keys.on the edge of violence which is the last defense against cultural Impotence.In Night Moves. director Arthur I’enn creates a savage portrait of contemporary America. Throughout Moaeby’s odyssey women assault life with braless and siliconed breasts, turning the tables on men accustomed to ruling the bed roanMen like Moseby. weaned on the football field or driven to prove their manhood in high-risk adventure, teeterHACKMAN GIVES a brilliant performance as the beleaguered Moseby. whose toughness gives way to a poignant vulnerability when he is t seduced and deserted by Paula (Jen- I nifer Warren), a sultry and enigmatic f woman marking time on the Keys. (Penn has packaged his story as a i slick whodunit laced with what could be ? soap opera in less skillful hands..Although the plot is too involved i and the violence may exceed the blood let in Penn’s controversial''Bennie and i Clyde,” Night Moves is one of the . most provocative and important films i to come out of Hollywood this year. It is K-rated.THE PURSUIT of Delly lakes the detached and Implacable Moseby through the macho world of Hollywood sturAmen and eventually to the Florida Keys, where the case erupts into a series of taiarre deaths.Moseby refuses to abandon the case even after discovering that his wife. Ellen lt;Susan Clark). is having an affair with stuntman Marty Heller (Harris Yulin) because of his long hours sleuthing. She also blames Moaeby's(011 ley;| Prices effective thru Sunday, June 15, 1975mDnuhlp FHop
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The Gazette
Medina, Ohio, US
Thu, Jun 12, 1975
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