Salesman Moses Pray (Ryan O'Neal) immediately regrets attending the prairie funeral where he meets Addie (Tatum O'Neal) for the first time in the opening scene from Paper Moon, 1973

A fraudulent Bible salesman (Ryan O'Neal) reluctantly adopts a tough little girl (Tatum O'Neal) who could be his daughter in Paper Moon (1973).

Addie (Tatum O'Neal) bails out Moses (Ryan O'Neal) when his attempted bible-sale shakedown runs into trouble in Paper Moon. 1973.

When Moses (Ryan O'Neal) can't get through to Addie (Tatum O'Neal), Trixie (Madeline Kahn) finds a way to reason with the child in Paper Moon, 1973.

The year is 1936. Orphaned Addie Loggins (Tatum O'Neal, in her film debut) is left in the care of unethical travelling Bible salesman Moses Pray (Ryan O'Neal, Tatum's dad), who may or may not be her father. En route to Addie's relatives, Moses learns that the 9-year-old is quite a handful: she smokes, cusses, and is almost as devious and manipulative as he is. They join forces as swindlers, working together so well that Addie is averse to breaking up the team -- which is one reason that she sabotages the romance between Moses and good-time gal Trixie Delight (Madeline Kahn). Later, while attempting to square a $200 debt that Addie claims he owes her, Moses runs afoul of of a bootlegger (John Hillerman) and is nearly beaten to death by the criminal's twin-brother sheriff. Painfully pulling himself together, Moses gets Addie to her relatives, whereupon she adamantly refuses to leave his side. Photographed in black-and-white by Laszlo Kovacs, the film was made largely on location in Kansas and Missouri (an exper