Movie
Harper
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1966-02-22
- Runtime
- 121 min
- Genres
- Mystery, Crime, Thriller
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Gershwin-Kastner, Warner Bros. Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Paul Newman as Lew Harper
- Lauren Bacall as Elaine Sampson
- Julie Harris as Betty Fraley
- Arthur Hill as Albert Graves
- Janet Leigh as Susan Harper
- Pamela Tiffin as Miranda Sampson
- Robert Wagner as Allan Taggert
- Robert Webber as Dwight Troy
- Shelley Winters as Fay Estabrook
- Harold Gould as Sheriff Spanner
- Roy Jenson as Puddler
- Strother Martin as Claude
Crew
- Jack Smight - Director
- William Goldman - Screenplay
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