Directed by:
Stuart RosenbergCinematography:
Gordon WillisComposer:
Michael SmallCast:
Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, Murray Hamilton, Gail Strickland, Melanie Griffith, Linda Haynes, Richard Jaeckel, Paul Koslo (more)Plots(1)
Private detective Lew Harper is in the Louisiana bayou working on a blackmail case that involves the daughter of his old girl friend Iris Devereau. While he is trying to solve the case, he becomes mixed up in a power struggle between Iris and a local oil tycoon. (official distributor synopsis)
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