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Harper (23-Feb-1966)

Director: Jack Smight

Writer: William Goldman

From novel: The Moving Target by Ross Macdonald

Music: Johnny Mandel

Producers: Jerry Gershwin; Elliott Kastner

Keywords: Mystery, Kidnapping

Elaine Sampson hires private detective Lew Harper to find her missing millionaire husband, whom she suspects he may be drunkenly entertaining some random starlet. Hardboiled detective mystery produced at the height of their unfashionability; Paul Newman is perfect as the wisecracking, personally flawed, financially strained and nearly-friendless detective, cool and laid-back but devoted to his profession. A genuine anti-hero. Won the Edgar for Best Motion Picture.

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Lauren Bacall
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Harold Gould
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Julie Harris
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Janet Leigh
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Actor
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Shelley Winters
Actor
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CAST

Paul Newman   ...   Lew Harper
Co-Starring
Lauren Bacall   ...   Mrs. Sampson
Julie Harris   ...   Betty Fraley
Arthur Hill   ...   Albert Graves
Janet Leigh   ...   Susan Harper
Pamela Tiffin   ...   Miranda Sampson
Robert Wagner   ...   Allan Taggert
Robert Webber   ...   Dwight Troy
Shelley Winters   ...   Fay Estabrook
with
Harold Gould   ...   Sheriff
Strother Martin   ...   Claude
Roy Jenson   ...   Puddler
Martin West   ...   Deputy
Jacqueline de Wit   ...   Mrs. Kronberg
Eugene Iglesias   ...   Felix
Richard Carlyle   ...   Fred Platt

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