NIGHT MOVES (1975) ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Arthur Penn
Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Edward Binns,
Melanie Griffith, Susan Clark, Harris Yulin,
Kenneth Mars, Janet Ward, James Woods
Gene Hackman plays a private eye hired to track down the runaway daughter of an actress who made up for a marginal career by marrying well. The detective has issues of his own, involving an adulterous wife (Susan Clark) and some longstanding emotional baggage connected to his father. His obsession with solving the case is matched every step of the way by his failure to do that, and the ending leaves him literally at sea.The runaway teenager is played by Melanie Griffith in her first movie role. The story goes that when the movie started filming she was underage and the producers waited till she turned 18 to shoot her nude scenes. The exposure got her noticed, but she's good in the part, too, jailbait personified, a wounded Lolita with a seductive pout, a killer body and a little-girl voice.
