The Hot Trail (film)

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Movie
German title The hot lead
Original title Night moves
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1975
length 99 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Arthur Penn
script Alan Sharp
production Robert M. Sherman
music Michael Small
camera Bruce Surtees
cut Dede Allen
occupation

The hot track (Original title: Night Moves ) is an American feature film from 1975 . The director was Arthur Penn and the script was written by Alan Sharp . The leading roles were played by Gene Hackman , Jennifer Warren and Susan Clark ; Melanie Griffith , who had her first significant role in this film, can be seen in one of the supporting roles .

action

Harry Moseby, a former football professional, works as a private investigator in Los Angeles . By chance he learns that his wife is cheating on him. He accepts the assignment of the aging actress Arlene Iverson to find her runaway daughter Delly Grastner.

Moseby finds Delly with her stepfather Tom Iverson in the US state of Florida and approaches her, initially without revealing his assignment. He sleeps with Tom's partner Paula. While diving, Delly discovers an airplane wreck in which she recognizes the corpse of her former lover Marv Ellman. He had run smuggling businesses with Tom and Paula. When Moseby confronts Paula and Tom about this, Tom engages him in a fight in the course of which Tom loses consciousness. Moseby drives Paula back to the wreck from which Paula is recovering the smuggled goods. Back on the surface, she is attacked and killed by Tom's seaplane, while Mosely is shot by the pilot. When the plane collides with the contraband and sinks, Mosely recognizes the pilot as his friend Joey, who had worked with some of the protagonists on film sets. Harry has to discover that everyone involved has their own motives that he only realizes too late.

Reviews

The lexicon of international films judged that the hot trail is “a sober detective film” , which captivates primarily through the performance of the actors and psychological profiling. The film is "an extremely delightful revival of classic detective films from the 1940s, accentuated by comments on the (then) American present, which condense into a subtle psychogram of the country."

Awards

Gene Hackman was nominated for the 1976 BAFTA Award for Best Actor , but it went to Al Pacino ( Dog Days and The Godfather - Part II ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Lexicon of International Films 2000/2001 (CD-ROM)