Paper Moon

Paper Moon

🎞️ Movie 102 min US
โ˜… 8.1 /10 1973

These aren't everyday people and this is no ordinary movie.

Adapted from the novel, "Addie Pray" (1971) by Joe David Brown, PAPER MOON is the story of Moses Pray and Addie Loggins. With scenery reminiscent of "The Grapes of Wrath," the film is set in the depression-era Midwestern region of the United States. As the movie opens, we see a small group of mourners clustered at a graveside. Among the mourners is Addie, the dead woman's small daughter. Moses Pray -- ostensibly of the "Kansas Bible Company" -- approaches the group, as the service concludes, and two of the elderly women remark that the child bears some resemblance to him and asks if he might be related. "If ever a child needed kin, it's now," one lady says. With no knowledge of who her father is, Addie's only haven is her Aunt's home in St. Joseph, Missouri. Having identified himself as a "traveling man spreading the Lord's gospel in these troubled times," "Mose" is prevailed upon to deliver the helpless child to her Aunt since he's going that way, anyway. Addie, wise beyond her years, soon discovers that Mose is little more than a scam artist traveling from town to town delivering unordered Bibles and charging exorbitant prices to recently widowed women whom he identifies through the obituary columns of local papers. Soon, Addie and Mose become a team, traveling from town to town, making money in every dishonest way imaginable, and looking for the ultimate score. The colorful characters they meet along the way make the film all the more interesting. Paramount among these is "Miss Trixie Delight," an exotic dancer who Mose rescues from a traveling carnival and her minion, Imogene. The film is peppered with "regional" dialog. Perhaps one of the most memorable lines of the movie is uttered when Mose is forced to wrestle a backwoodsman in order to trade his new car for the hillbilly's battered old truck. "Make him say calf-rope, Leroy!" one of the observers calls out.

Cast

Ryan O'Neal
Ryan O'Neal
Moses Pray
Tatum O'Neal
Tatum O'Neal
Addie Loggins
Madeline Kahn
Madeline Kahn
Trixie Delight
John Hillerman
John Hillerman
Deputy Hardin
John Hillerman
John Hillerman
Jess Hardin
P.J. Johnson
P.J. Johnson
Imogene
Jessie Lee Fulton
Jessie Lee Fulton
Miss Ollie
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James N. Harrell
The Minister
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Lila Waters
The Minister's Wife
Noble Willingham
Noble Willingham
Mr. Robertson
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Bob Young
Gas Station Attendant
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László Kovács
Cinematographer

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