The drowning pool [videorecording] / Warner Bros., First Artists presents ; a Coleytown/Turman-Foster production ; produced by Lawrence Turman and David Foster ; screenplay by Tracy Keenan Wynn, Lorenzo Semple, Jr., Walter Hill ; directed by Stuart Rosenberg.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 110398 | Warner Home VideoLanguage: English, French Original language: English Subtitle language: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese Publication details: [United States] : Warner Home Video, [2006]Description: 1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 1419842722
- 9781419842726
- Music by Michael Small.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Paul Newman returns as private detective Lew Harper is this tale of blackmail and murder based on a novel by Ross MacDonald. Iris Devereaux (Joanne Woodward), the wife of a wealthy oilman from Louisiana, hires Harper after she receives a threatening letter. A blackmailer is threatening to tell Iris' husband James (Richard Derr) about a recent extramarital affair; she claims this indiscretion never happened, though she has been unfaithful in the past, and years ago had a brief fling with Harper. Matters become more complicated when Iris' mother-in-law Olivia (Coral Browne) is found murdered. Eventually, Harper traces the blackmail letter to Kilborne (Murray Hamilton), another bayou oil baron, and along the way encounters Schuyler (Melanie Griffith), Iris' young but ripe daughter; Pat Reavis (Andy Robinson), Olivia's former chauffeur and a key suspect in her murder; and Detective Broussard (Tony Franciosa), a police investigator who, like Harper, was once involved with Iris. This was Coral Browne's first film after her marriage to actor Vincent Price in 1974. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
Based on the novel by Ross Macdonald.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1975.
Special features: Vintage featurette, Harper days are here again; theatrical trailer.
Music by Michael Small.
Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Tony Franciosa, Linda Haynes.
Paul Newman returns as the quick-witted detective he first played nine years before in Harper, who's in deep this time. Hired by an old flame to unravel a seemingly routine blackmail case, he's so far down he may never come up for air.
MPAA rating: PG.
DVD, region 1, widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital mono.
English and French dialogue with subtitles in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese; closed-captioned.