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''Night Moves'' is a 1975 mystery thriller film directed by Arthur Penn. It stars Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Susan Clark, and features early career appearances by Melanie Griffith and James Woods. Hackman was nominated for the BAFTA Award for his portrayal of Harry Moseby, a private investigator. The film has been called "a seminal modern noir work from the 1970s",〔 which refers to its relationship with the film noir tradition of detective films. Although ''Night Moves'' was not considered particularly successful at the time of its release, it has attracted viewers and significant critical attention following its videotape and DVD releases.〔 Manohla Dargis described it recently as "the great, despairing ''Night Moves'' (1975), with Gene Hackman as a private detective who ends up circling the abyss, a no-exit comment on the post-1968, post-Watergate times." ==Synopsis== Harry Moseby is a retired professional football player now working as a private investigator in Los Angeles. He discovers that his wife Ellen (Susan Clark) is having an affair with a crippled man named Marty Heller (Harris Yulin). Aging actress Arlene Iverson (Janet Ward) hires Harry to find her 16-year old daughter Delly Grastner (Melanie Griffith). Arlene's only source of income is her daughter's trust-fund, but it requires Delly to be living with her. Arlene gives Harry the name of one of Delly's friends in L.A., a mechanic called Quentin (James Woods). Quentin tells Harry that he last saw Delly at a New Mexico film location, where she started flirting with one of Arlene's old flames, stuntman Marv Ellman. Harry realises that the injuries to Quentin's face are from fighting the stuntman and sympathises with his bitterness towards Delly. He travels to the film location and talks to Marv and stunt coordinator, Joey Ziegler (Edward Binns). Before returning to L.A., Harry is surprised to see Quentin working on Marv's stunt plane. Harry suspects that Delly may be trying to seduce her mother's ex-lovers and travels to the Florida Keys, where her stepfather Tom Iverson (John Crawford) lives. In Florida, Harry finds Delly staying with Tom and a woman named Paula (Jennifer Warren). Harry, Paula and Delly take a boat trip to go swimming, but Delly becomes distraught when she finds the submerged wreckage of a small plane with the decomposing body of Marv Ellman inside. Paula marks the spot with a buoy and when they return to shore, she appears to report the find to the Coast Guard. Harry persuades Delly to return to her mother in California. Delly is killed in a car accident on the set of a movie. Harry questions the driver, Joey, and Quentin the mechanic. He goes to the home of Arlene Iverson and finds her drunk by the pool, although not grieving over the death of her daughter. Arlene now stands to inherit her daughter's wealth. Harry returns to Florida, where he finds the body of Quentin the mechanic floating in Tom's dolphin pen. Harry accuses Tom of the murder, they fight, and Tom is knocked unconscious. Paula admits she did not report the dead body in the plane because it contained a valuable sculpture that has been smuggled piecemeal to the United States. Harry and Paula set off to retrieve the sculpture. While Paula is diving a seaplane arrives and the pilot shoots at Harry, hitting him in the leg. The seaplane lands on the ocean but when the pilot sees Paula surface with the sculpture, he charges the plane at her and she is killed. The impact destroys the seaplane and as the cockpit submerges into the ocean, Harry is able to see through the glass window beneath his boat that the drowning pilot is Joey Ziegler. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Night Moves (1975 film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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