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Overview
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Director:
Writers:
Tracy Keenan Wynn (screenplay) &
Lorenzo Semple Jr. (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
July 1975 (USA) more
Tagline:
Harper days are here again... more
Plot:
A big-city private detective travels to the Deep South to help out an old girlfriend who is being blackmailed. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
1 nomination more
NewsDesk:
(5 articles)
Show Review: Crue Fest 2 - 8/22
(From Fangoria. 27 August 2009, 10:30 AM, PDT)
What I Watched, What You Watched: Installment #3
(From Rope Of Silicon. 9 August 2009, 3:21 AM, PDT)
User Comments:
Intelligent thriller more (20 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Paul Newman | ... | Harper |
 | Joanne Woodward | ... | Iris |
 | Anthony Franciosa | ... | Broussard (as Tony Franciosa) |
 | Murray Hamilton | ... | Kilbourne |
| Gail Strickland | ... | Mavis |
 | Melanie Griffith | ... | Schuyler |
 | Linda Haynes | ... | Gretchen |
| Richard Jaeckel | ... | Franks |
 | Paul Koslo | ... | Candy |
| Joe Canutt | ... | Glo |
 | Andrew Robinson | ... | Pat Reavis (as Andy Robinson) |
| Coral Browne | ... | Olivia |
| Richard Derr | ... | James |
| Helena Kallianiotes | ... | Elaine Reavis |
| Leigh French | ... | Red Head |
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Runtime:
108 min
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Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
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Certification:
Germany:12 (re-rating) (2006) | West Germany:16 (original rating) | Portugal:M/12 | Australia:PG | Canada:14A (video rating) | Finland:K-16 | Netherlands:12 | Norway:16 | Sweden:15 | USA:PG | Canada:PG (Ontario)
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Average Shot Length = ~7.2 seconds. Median Shot Length = ~7.3 seconds. more
Quotes:
Schuyler Devereaux:
How do you do Mr Harper?
Lew Harper:
Oh sometimes I do better than others.
Schuyler Devereaux:
Well I hope so.
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Soundtrack:
Sweet Dreams more
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A mature, intelligent thriller, in which Newman recreates Lew Harper. It takes place around New Orleans and involves public corruption and an intricate web of deceit.
The style is fairly laid-back, though it doesn't actually lag - even though it sometimes seems it's about to. The characters are all sharply delineated and complex, and there is a lot of very good acting going on.
Thoroughly watchable, with some tension and suspense, but only sporadic action.