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Overview

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Director:
Arthur Penn
Writer:
Alan Sharp (writer)
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Release Date:
12 September 1975 (Finland) more
Genre:
Crime | Thriller more
Tagline:
What private eye Harry Moseby doesn't know about the girl he's looking for... just might get him killed. more
Plot:
Former footballer and present private detective Harry Moseby gets hired on to what seems a standard missing person case... more | full synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. more
NewsDesk:
(6 articles)
Fashion, celebrity photographer Irving Penn dies
 (From Filmicafe. 7 October 2009, 1:13 PM, PDT)

Cinematical Seven: Horror Replacement Actors
 (From Cinematical. 28 May 2009, 8:02 PM, PDT)

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Hackman's greatest role more (35 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Gene Hackman ... Harry Moseby
Jennifer Warren ... Paula
Susan Clark ... Ellen Moseby
Edward Binns ... Joey Ziegler
Harris Yulin ... Marty Heller
Kenneth Mars ... Nick
Janet Ward ... Arlene Iverson

James Woods ... Quentin

Melanie Griffith ... Delly Grastner
Anthony Costello ... Marv Ellman
John Crawford ... Tom Iverson
Ben Archibek ... Charles

Dennis Dugan ... Boy
C.J. Hincks ... Girl

Max Gail ... Stud (as Maxwell Gail Jr.)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Dark Tower (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
100 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono

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Trivia:
Arthur Penn, an early contender to direct The Stunt Man (1980), borrowed elements from that film's source, the Paul Brodeur novel of the same name, for this film's story. more
Quotes:
Paula: When we're all as free as Delly there'll be rioting in the streets. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in The Sinister Saga of Making 'The Stunt Man' (2000) (V) more

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16 out of 18 people found the following comment useful.
Hackman's greatest role, 16 August 2004
Author: d_stores (d_stores@hotmail.com) from Al Alamain, Egypt

This is the perfect role for Hackman as the aging sports star unable to find his role in life once the playing days are over. He is the accidental jock, too sensitive to play the stereotype and so finding no sense of belonging. He has become a detective but he is a bumbling amateur compared to a Philip Marlowe type. He is shy and hestitant and is frequently made to feel discomfort by the seedy, untrustworthy people he comes into contact with. He has none of Marlowe's self assurance. It begs the question why has he become a detective? Maybe it is partly due to his abandonment by his father who years later Hackman tracks down only to fail in confronting him. He is condemned to search for people to whom he is of no importance.

This idea of the lonely seeker is Hackman's own turf. His affable charm conveys a sense of a lifetime's wrongheaded idealism. In the wrong job, deluding himself, looking for a way out. Eventually, he is able to see clearly and see how his drifting has allowed the people around him to manipulate him in their games. Unlike many of this film's peers such as 'Chinatown', 'Taxi Driver', 'The Long Goodbye', we are not left to be slightly repulsed by the lead actor's ways. Hackman plays the everyman character as an affable, amateur sleuth whose hestitancy and chronic lack of commitment give him a fallibility more recognizable to an audience.

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