Night Moves

Name: Night Moves
Director: Arthur Penn
Released: 1975
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 7.1
Cast: Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Edward Binns, Harris Yulin, Kenneth Mars

1975 · 100 MIN · IMDB 7.1 · 19,016 VOTES · DIR. Arthur Penn

Overview

Private detective and former football player Harry Moseby gets hired on to what seems a standard missing person case, as a former Hollywood actress whose only major roles came thanks to being married to a studio mogul wants Moseby to find and return her daughter. Harry travels to Florida to find her, but he begins to see a connection between the runaway girl, the world of Hollywood stuntmen, and a suspicious mechanic when an unsolved murder comes to light.

Dialogue Timeline — 942 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:59 Beep. How I hate these goddamn machines. It's Nick, babe. I got one for you, Har.

00:04:52 Two weeks. I'm used to her staying out nights. At first I didn't worry.

00:07:32 - The tape on Arlene. She likes big guys... - That ever buy you anything?

00:12:09 I'm gonna make some cocoa. You want a cup?

00:16:21 How serious is it?

00:19:33 People ask you to do boring, trivial things, and you do them...

00:22:34 Next thing I know, he throws a punch.

00:25:28 - It has chips on the prop. - Hi, Quentin.

00:28:17 Go ahead.

00:31:46 Over there. If you wanna swim, it's a mile. If you wanna follow me, it's six.

00:35:56 It's the heat and the low wages.

00:38:18 That sounds reasonable enough to me.

00:41:51 Delly, you're either gonna go back to L.A. with me or I'll turn you over to the cops...

00:45:17 Sounds kind of bleak.

00:49:23 That's right. Just one...

00:53:49 It's one of those questions everybody knows the answer to.

00:59:23 Did you ever run away from home?

01:05:45 - You don't have to do that for me. - It's not for you.

01:09:58 Was he really so unlike you?

01:13:20 That's the B camera. Another angle, same stuff.

01:18:10 Get out of here, you son of a...

01:21:25 Goddamn it. They never reported the plane to the Coast Guard. Why?

01:27:03 Oh, my God! Tom!

01:30:09 Your erect nipples.

Cast & Characters

Gene Hackman Harry Moseby Jennifer Warren Paula Edward Binns Joey Ziegler Harris Yulin Marty Heller Kenneth Mars Nick Janet Ward Arlene Iverson James Woods Quentin Anthony Costello Marv Ellman John Crawford Tom Iverson Melanie Griffith Delly Grastner

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed942

Dialogue density9.4 lines / min

First line00:00:59

Final line01:30:09

Production Record

DirectorArthur Penn

LanguageEnglish

IMDb votes19,016