Details

Release year: 1975

Storyline

Los Angeles private investigator Harry Moseby is hired by a client to find her runaway teenage daughter. Moseby tracks the daughter down, only to stumble upon something much more intriguing and sinister.

Top credits

Directors

Arthur Penn

Writers

Alan Sharp

Cast

Gene Hackman — Harry Moseby
Jennifer Warren — Paula
Edward Binns — Joey Ziegler
Harris Yulin — Marty Heller

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Awards

0 wins & 1 nomination

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Did you know

• Debut credited film role of Melanie Griffith and her first nude scenes. It's been reported that she was 17 when she appeared in this film, but if the film started filming in Oct. 1973 as reports state, that means Griffith turned 16 two months before, in August 1973.

• Paula (Jennifer Warren) tells Harry (Gene Hackman) that the first boy who touched her breasts was named Billy Dannreuther, which is the name of Humphrey Bogart's character in Beat the Devil (1953).

• Quentin's (James Woods) house was owned by Phil Kaufman, road manager for Gram Parsons at the time of his death. Kaufman's subsequent actions became the basis for Grand Theft Parsons (2003). The cast and crew of this movie were shooting at the house on the day the police came to question Kaufman, and as they were taking him away, Arthur Penn turned to Gene Hackman and said, "Man, we're shooting the wrong movie."