Directed by:
Jack SmightScreenplay:
William GoldmanCinematography:
Conrad L. HallComposer:
Johnny MandelCast:
Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris, Arthur Hill, Janet Leigh, Pamela Tiffin, Robert Wagner, Robert Webber, Shelley Winters, Harold Gould, Roy Jenson (more)Plots(1)
Hard-boiled private investigator Lew Harper is hired to locate a missing millionaire named Sampson. Elaine Sampson, the victim's invalid wife is indifferent and apparently happy he's gone. The trail leads him to the plush pad that Sampson maintained in Los Angeles, where the clues indicate that he had a cultist's preoccupation with astrology and was under the influence of a one time movie star, Fay Estabrook. With junkie pianists, double-crossing lawyers, brutal beatings and car crashes, Harper has his work cut out for him. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Paul Newman
USA
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Lauren Bacall
USA
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Julie Harris
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Arthur Hill
Canada
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Janet Leigh
USA
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Little Women (1949)
Pamela Tiffin
USA
Best movies:
One, Two, Three (1961)
The Man, the Woman and the Money (1965)
Harper (1966)
Robert Wagner
USA
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Robert Webber
USA
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The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
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Shelley Winters
USA
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The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
Harold Gould
USA
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Roy Jenson
Canada
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Strother Martin
USA
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Jacqueline deWit
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Spellbound (1945)
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Cosmo Sardo
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Eugene Iglesias
Puerto Rico
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Martin West
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Steve Carruthers
USA
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Tom Steele
UK
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Richard Carlyle
Canada
Best movies:
Harper (1966)
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China Lee
USA
Best movies:
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