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The Drowning Pool is a 1975 American mystery thriller film directed by Stuart Rosenberg, and based upon Ross Macdonald's novel of the same name. The film stars Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, and Anthony Franciosa, and is a loose sequel to Harper. The setting is shifted from California to Louisiana.
Jul 18, 1975 · Paul Newman stars as Lew Harper, a private investigator who gets involved in a web of corruption and murder in Louisiana. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, soundtracks and more for this classic film.
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Stuart Rosenberg
- 1975-07-18
Find out who starred in and worked behind the scenes of the mystery thriller The Drowning Pool, based on a novel by Ross Macdonald. See the full list of actors, directors, writers, producers, and more on IMDb.
Roger Ebert criticizes the movie adaptation of Ross Macdonald's novel, starring Paul Newman as private eye Harper. He complains about the visual style, the characters, and the plot of this thriller.
101. Academy Award winners Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward star in this thriller about a big-city private detective who travels to the Deep South to help a former girlfriend ... only to be caught...
Jun 20, 2011 · Drowning Pool, The (1975) -- (Movie Clip) Are You Slant Drilling Me? Out-of-town detective Harper (Paul Newman) has been invited at gunpoint to meet Louisiana oil-man J-Hugh Kilbourne (Murray Hamilton), who seems to know all about the case at hand, in The Drowning Pool, 1975, Stuart Rosenberg directing from the Ross MacDonald novel.
Harper is brought to Louisiana bayou country to help out an old girlfriend who is worried that her husband will find out that she is cheating on him. What is more, he finds himself caught in a power struggle between the matriarch of the family and a greedy oil baron, who wants her property. Poor Harper!
