Harper

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Harper

1966 · Movie · 121 min

Scores

  • Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer95%as of 2024-10-08
  • Rotten Tomatoes average7.1/10as of 2021-10-05
  • Metacritic51/100as of 2024-01-23

What it is

Harper is a 1966 American neo-noir mystery thriller film directed by Jack Smight from a screenplay by William Goldman, based on the 1949 novel The Moving Target by Ross Macdonald. It stars Paul Newman as private investigator Lew Harper, who is tasked with finding a missing multimillionaire. The cast also features Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris, Arthur Hill, Janet Leigh, Pamela Tiffin, Robert Wagner and Shelley Winters.

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Genres
Crime / Mystery
Original language
English

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