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The Drowning Pool is a film based on a Ross Macdonald novel, starring Paul Newman as a private investigator in Louisiana. The plot involves blackmail, murder, oil, and a missing account book.
Paul Newman stars as Lew Harper, a private investigator who gets involved in a web of corruption and betrayal in Louisiana. The film is a sequel to Harper (1966) and features Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa and Melanie Griffith.
- (6.3K)
- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Stuart Rosenberg
- 1975-07-18
Newman, as Harper, is called away from his California base to work on a case in Louisiana. The case looks simple at first (they always do), but what starts as a little lightweight blackmail turns into extortion, torture, murder and revenge.
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.
The Drowning Pool. A New Orleans oil heiress (Joanne Woodward) hires private eye Lew Harper (Paul Newman) to unravel a blackmail scheme. Rent The Drowning Pool on Fandango at Home, Prime...
- (17)
- Stuart Rosenberg
- PG
- Paul Newman
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...
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Jun 20, 2011 · When Los Angeles based private eye Lew Harper is summoned to Louisiana on a case by Iris, a former lover who has married into a prominent New Orleans family, he finds himself drawn into a web of blackmail, extortion, crooked businessmen and murder. Based on a detective novel of the same name by Ross MacDonald (a pseudonym for Kenneth Millar ...
