![]() John Hillerman as Deputy Hardin/Jess Hardin.When he refuses her company, she reminds him that he still owes her $200 and points out that his truck has just rolled away without him. Joseph, but a disappointed Addie rejoins him on the road. Humiliated and defeated, Moze drops Addie at the house of her aunt in St. Moze and Addie make it across the state line to Missouri, where Moze sets up another swindle, only to be caught again by the sheriff and his deputies outside their jurisdiction and unable to make an arrest, they beat Moze and rob him of his and Addie's savings. To elude pursuit, they trade their new car for a decrepit Model T farm truck after Moze beats a hillbilly, Leroy, in a "rasslin' match". Addie hides their money in her hat, steals back the key to their car, and the pair escape. Unfortunately, the bootlegger's twin brother is the local sheriff, and he quickly arrests Addie and Moze. While staying at another hotel in a rural area, Moze uncovers a bootlegger's store full of whiskey, steals some of it, and sells it back to the bootlegger. Moze promptly leaves Miss Trixie and Imogene behind, while Addie leaves Imogene enough money to pay for her own passage home. Addie then sends Moze up to Trixie's room, where he discovers the clerk and Trixie having sex. They convince a clerk at the hotel where the group is staying to visit Trixie. When Addie subsequently discovers that Moze has spent their money on a brand-new Model 68 convertible to impress Miss Trixie, she and Imogene devise a plan. Imogene reveals that Trixie works, at least occasionally, as a prostitute, and it is suggested she has a venereal disease causing her a frequent need to urinate. Addie soon becomes friends with Imogene and becomes jealous of Trixie. Much to Addie's chagrin, Moze invites "Miss Trixie"-and her downtrodden African American teenage maid, Imogene-to join Addie and him. One night, Addie and "Moze" (as Addie addresses him) stop at a local carnival, where Moze becomes enthralled with an "exotic dancer" named Miss Trixie Delight and leaves Addie at a photo booth to have her photograph taken alone (of herself sitting on a crescent moon, to suggest the film's title). As time passes, Moses and Addie become a formidable team. Addie joins the scam, pretending she is his daughter, and exhibits a talent for confidence tricks, such as selling Bibles and the quick change scam. Thereafter, Moses visits recently widowed women, pretending to have previously sold expensive, personalized Bibles to their deceased husbands, and the widows pay him for the Bibles inscribed with their names. Addie overhears this conversation and, after Moses spends nearly half the money fixing his old Model A convertible and buying her a train ticket, she demands the money as rightfully hers, whereupon Moses agrees to let Addie travel with him until he has raised back the full $200 to give to her. Joseph, Missouri.Īt a local grain mill, Moses convinces the brother of the man who accidentally killed Addie's mother to give him $200 for the newly orphaned Addie. He denies this, but agrees to deliver the orphaned Addie to her aunt's home in St. In Gorham, Kansas, circa 1936, itinerant con man Moses Pray meets nine-year-old Addie Loggins at her mother's graveside service, where the neighbors suspect he is Addie's father. Tatum O'Neal received widespread praise from critics for her performance as Addie, earning her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, making her the youngest competitive winner in the history of the Academy Awards. It stars the real-life father and daughter pairing of Ryan and Tatum O'Neal as protagonists Moze and Addie. The film, shot in black-and-white, is set in Kansas and Missouri during the Great Depression. ![]() ![]() ![]() Screenwriter Alvin Sargent adapted the script from the 1971 novel Addie Pray by Joe David Brown. Paper Moon is a 1973 American road comedy-drama film directed by Peter Bogdanovich and released by Paramount Pictures. ![]()
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