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Harper (released in the United Kingdom as The Moving Target) is a 1966 American mystery thriller film directed by Jack Smight from a screenplay by William Goldman, based on the 1949 novel The Moving Target by Ross Macdonald.
Harper: Directed by Jack Smight. With Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris, Arthur Hill. Cool private investigator Lew Harper is hired by a wealthy California matron to locate her kidnapped husband.
Elaine Sampson (Lauren Bacall), recently paralyzed in a horse-riding accident, wants Harper to find her missing oil baron husband, but her tempestuous teenage stepdaughter Miranda (Pamela Tiffin...
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Lew Harper is a Los Angeles based private investigator whose marriage to Susan Harper, who he still loves, is ending in imminent divorce since she can't stand being second fiddle to his work, which is always taking him away at the most inopportune of times.
Harper is asked to investigate the disappearance of the millionaire husband of Elaine Sampson, a crippled and bitter woman. At the Sampson estate, Harper also meets Elaine's spoiled stepdaughter, Miranda, and the Sampson's handsome private pilot, Alan Taggert.
Paul Newman is "Harper," a detective called upon to find a missing husband in this 1966 film based on the book "The Moving Target" by Ross MacDonald. It also stars Lauren Bacall, Arthur Hill, Pamela Tiffin, Robert Wagner, Shelley Winters, Robert Webber, Janet Leigh and Julie Harris.
Harper. Down on his luck and almost broke, Harper takes a job finding the missing husband of Elaine Sampson. But what should be a simple case takes Harper on a downward spiral. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started.
