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The Drowning Pool: Directed by Stuart Rosenberg. With Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, Murray Hamilton. Harper's a big-city PI, who travels to Louisiana to help an old girlfriend who's worried her husband will find out she's been cheating on him.
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.
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.
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The Drowning Pool is a 1950 mystery novel by American writer Ross Macdonald, then writing under the name John Ross Macdonald (and simply John Macdonald in the UK).
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...
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At Beau Rivage, Harper discovers that Iris has died from an overdose. Emotionally overwrought, Broussard tells Harper about his 17-year relationship with Iris. Outside, Harper accuses Schuyler of killing Olivia and tormenting Iris so that she could be the center of her father's attention.
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 ...
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...
Overview. Harper is brought to Louisiana to investigate an attempted blackmail scheme. He soon finds out that it involves an old flame of his and her daughter. He eventually finds himself caught in a power struggle between the matriarch of the family and a greedy oil baron, who wants their property. Poor Harper!
