| | |
Features: DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 2.35:1, English, French, Spanish, Subtitled
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 beatins and car crashes, Harper has his work cut out for him.Running Time: 121 min.Format: DVD MOVIE
Editor's Note
The name may have been changed to Harper to capitalize on Paul Newman's recent success with HUD (1963), but this private-eye mystery is unmistakably based on a Ross MacDonald Lew Archer novel. When a millionaire businessman turns up missing, his estranged invalid wife (Lauren Bacall) hires private detective Harper (Newman) to find him. The P.I. quickly discovers that the victim has been kidnapped by some of those nearest and dearest to him, and uncovers a tangled web of smuggling, greed, drugs and petty family jealousies. With a script from prolific longtime Hollywood screenwriter William Goldman, this Lew Harper detective thriller was followed up nine years later with the THE DEAD POOL (1975).
| Features | 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 beatins and car crashes, Harper has his work cut out for him. |
| Source: Warner Home Video |
| Technical Info
|
Release Information
|  | Studio: Warner |
| Release Date: 11/14/2006 |
| Running Time: 121 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1966 | | Catalog ID: 81671 | | UPC: 00012569816718 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Available Subtitles: English, French | | Video: Color |
| Cast & Crew
|
| |
|
|
