Attributes
- Directed by Arthur Penn
- Origin USA
- Year 1975
- Duration 1h 40m
- Certificate 18
- Type Film
Gene Hackman gives another defining performance of the period, capturing in former footballer turned P.I. Harry Moseby the confusions and complexities now facing the all-American hero. Traditional American Values were not only being tested by a corrupt President in the Whitehouse but also even culturally. A new case searching for the missing teenage daughter (Melanie Griffiths in her debut) of a former movie star leads Moseby from Hollywood to the Florida Keys and an emotional reckoning. Scripted by Alan Sharp, this film is as elegant plotted and deadly as the chess game Harry keeps pondering where a champion unaccountably didn’t see checkmate coming, and, like Chinatown, has one of the most emotionally devastating endings delivered in a Hollywood film.
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