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.
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Character
Classical in form, cool, earnest and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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Cast
- Paul NewmanLew Harper
- Lauren BacallElaine Sampson
- Julie HarrisBetty Fraley
- Arthur HillAlbert Graves
- Janet LeighSusan Harper
- Pamela TiffinMiranda Sampson
- Robert WagnerAllan Taggert
- Robert WebberDwight Troy
- Shelley WintersFay Estabrook
- Harold GouldSheriff Spanner
Crew
- Jack SmightDirector
- William GoldmanScreenplay
- Ross MacdonaldNovel
- Conrad HallDirector of Photography
- Johnny MandelOriginal Music Composer
- Stefan ArnstenEditor
- Elliott KastnerProducer
- Jerry GershwinProducer
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