SNUBS: Paper Moon (1973)

“I want my two hundred dollars!”

Something was in the air in 1973 where people wanted nostalgia and con artists in their films. But while George Roy Hill teamed up with Redford and Newman for the utter perfection of the genre, Peter Bogdanovich followed up one classic film with another underrated gem. Nothing about this movie is particularly remarkable, save the outstanding performance by 9-year-old Tatum O’Neal. Instead, it’s just an aggregate of everyone telling a really good story. I’ll give you this 5 dollar bill rather than the dollar change but you can get a 20 instead as we watch Paper Moon on Have a Good Movie!

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Intro music taken from the Second Movement of Ludwig von Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Hong Kong (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 HK) license. To hear the full performance or get more information, visit the song page at the Internet Archive.

Excerpt taken from the song “Paper Moon”, written and composed by Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg and Billy Rose and performed by Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra with Peggy Healy as vocalist.

Excerpt taken from the song “The Finer Things,” written by Donald Fagen and performed by David Sanborn as part of the soundtrack to The King of Comedy.  Copyright 1983 Warner Bros. Records Inc.