Harper

feature film, 1966.

DIRECTED BY: Jack Smight

Harper

CAST:
Paul Newman (Lew Harper),
Lauren Bacall (Elaine Sampson),
Julie Harris (Betty Fraley),
Arthur Hill (Albert Graves),
Janet Leigh (Susan Harper)

SCRIPT:
William Goldman (prema romanu Rossa Macdonalda)

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Conrad L. Hall

Synopsis:
Harper is in the middle of a divorce from his wife whom she still loves and does not have many friends. Due to his job of a private eye, he has neglected his wife and finally she got fed up with him. At the same time, he gets a new case. Elaine Sampson hires him to find her rich husband who has disappeared. He was last seen on the plane returning from Las Vegas, and she assumes that he is with another woman. It seems that nobody knows where he is, and it seems like nobody much likes him either…

color, 35 mm, 121 min