Arthur Penn

Night Moves

Night Moves

Arthur Penn’s haunting neonoir reimagines the hard-boiled detective film for the disillusioned, paranoid 1970s. In one of his greatest performances, Gene Hackman oozes world-weary cynicism as a private investigator whose search for an actress’s missing daughter (Melanie Griffith) leads him from the Hollywood Hills to the Florida Keys, where he is pulled into a sordid family drama and a sinister conspiracy he can hardly grasp. Bolstered by Alan Sharp’s genre-scrambling script and Dede Allen’s elliptical editing, the daringly labyrinthine Night Moves is a defining work of post-Watergate cinema—a silent scream of existential dread and moral decay whose legend has only grown with time.

Film Info

  • United States
  • 1975
  • 100 minutes
  • Color
  • 1.85:1
  • English
  • Spine #1255

4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

  • New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
  • One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
  • New audio commentary by Matthew Asprey Gear, author of Moseby Confidential
  • New audio interview with actor Jennifer Warren
  • Interview with director Arthur Penn from a 1975 episode of Cinema Showcase
  • Interview with Penn from the 1995 documentary Arthur Penn: A Love Affair with Film
  • The Day of the Director, a behind-the-scenes featurette
  • Trailer
  • English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • PLUS: An essay by critic Mark Harris

    New cover by Greg Manchess

Purchase Options

Coming soon, available Mar 25, 2025

4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

  • New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
  • One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
  • New audio commentary by Matthew Asprey Gear, author of Moseby Confidential
  • New audio interview with actor Jennifer Warren
  • Interview with director Arthur Penn from a 1975 episode of Cinema Showcase
  • Interview with Penn from the 1995 documentary Arthur Penn: A Love Affair with Film
  • The Day of the Director, a behind-the-scenes featurette
  • Trailer
  • English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • PLUS: An essay by critic Mark Harris

    New cover by Greg Manchess
Night Moves
Cast
Gene Hackman
Harry Moseby
Jennifer Warren
Paula
Susan Clark
Ellen Moseby
Melanie Griffith
Delly Grastner
Edward Binns
Joey Ziegler
Harris Yulin
Marty Heller
Janet Ward
Arlene
James Woods
Quentin
John Crawford
Tom Iverson
Credits
Director
Arthur Penn
Written by
Alan Sharp
Produced by
Robert M. Sherman
Director of photography
Bruce Surtees
Film editor
Dede Allen
Music composed and conducted by
Michael Small
Production designer
George Jenkins