Night Moves (The Criterion Collection) [4K UHD]

A mystery that refuses to solve itself.

Directed by Arthur Penn, Night Moves is a haunting reinvention of the hard-boiled detective story—filtered through the paranoia, moral exhaustion, and disillusionment of post-Watergate America.

In one of the greatest performances of his career, Gene Hackman stars as Harry Moseby, a weary private investigator hired to find the missing teenage daughter of a faded Hollywood actress. What begins as a routine case slowly unravels into something far darker, leading Moseby from the Hollywood Hills to the Florida Keys, where fractured families, buried secrets, and a shadowy conspiracy collide.

Featuring Melanie Griffith in an early role and driven by Alan Sharp’s genre-scrambling screenplay and Dede Allen’s elliptical editing, Night Moves abandons easy answers in favor of ambiguity and existential dread. The result is a bleak, labyrinthine neo-noir—less about solving a mystery than confronting the impossibility of truth.

This Criterion Collection 4K UHD Special Edition presents the film in a new 4K digital restoration, offering the definitive home-video release of a movie whose reputation has only grown with time.

Special Edition Features

• New 4K Digital Restoration
  With uncompressed monaural soundtrack

• Dolby Vision HDR Presentation

• 4K UHD Disc with the feature film

• Blu-ray Disc with the film and special features

• New Audio Commentary by Matthew Asprey Gear (Moseby Confidential)

• New Audio Interview with actor Jennifer Warren

• Interview with 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 – Behind-the-scenes featurette

• Theatrical Trailer

• English Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing

• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Mark Harris

Why This Release Is Essential

• The Criterion Collection Presentation
  Museum-quality restoration and supplements

• Definitive Post-Watergate Neo-Noir

• Career-Best Performance by Gene Hackman

• Dolby Vision 4K UHD Upgrade

• Essential for Classic & Prestige Cinema Collectors

Product Details

• Format: 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

• Edition: The Criterion Collection

• Genre: Neo-Noir, Thriller, Drama

• Language: English

• Audio: Uncompressed Monaural

• Subtitles: English (SDH)

A quiet scream of moral decay and existential unease, Night Moves stands as one of the defining American films of the 1970s—finally presented in the form it deserves.