1966/02/22 (US) | Mystery, Crime, Thriller
Harper takes a case - and the payoff is murder.
Harper is a cynical private eye in the best tradition of Bogart. He even has Bogie's Baby hiring him to find her missing husband, getting involved along the way with an assortment of unsavory characters and an illegal-alien smuggling ring.
William Goldman
Screenplay
Jack Smight
Director
Paul Newman
Lew Harper
Lauren Bacall
Elaine Sampson
Julie Harris
Betty Fraley
Arthur Hill
Albert Graves
Janet Leigh
Susan Harper
Pamela Tiffin
Miranda Sampson
Robert Wagner
Allan Taggert
$ 3,500,000
$ 12,000,000
Released
Ross Macdonald
Novel
Paul Baxley
Stunt Coordinator
Alfred Sweeney
Art Direction
James H. Brown
Assistant Director
Elliott Kastner
Producer
Claude E. Carpenter
Set Decoration