Harper
by Jack Smight
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Actor: Janet Leigh, Lauren Bacall, Paul NewmanDirector: Jack Smight
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Widescreen, 2.35:1
Running Time: 121 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-11-14
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: 81671
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product 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, Fa
Movie Reviews of Harper
Movie Review: West Coast Cool - Told Like It Probably Happened
Summary: 5 Stars
Harper is one of those movies that makes practical spiritual sense to me. The movie develops people's attitudes and the flow of facts the way these things would develop in a real investigation. How do I know - I was a policeman for 30-plus years. It's a movie about people who can afford a private eye and an expensive attorney. The kind of people that don't want to live their lives in the same manner that they want everyone to think that they do - rich hypocrites. They pay enough to get the job done right but somehow fail to inspire loyalty and trust.
Harper does his job, gets his butt kicked, kicks some butt and figures out that old friends, who have saved your butt, are more important than ethics or philosophy! In the end, Harper knows a little more about who he really is. More importantly, he gains clarity from his interaction with some bad people rather than from an intellectual pursuit.
Hey, it's an entertaining movie about a kidnap/homicide. The victim is a rich man who plays with the wrong crowd and looses. It's about an LA P.I. that isn't taking pictures of guys cheating on their wives; at least at the moment. It's an old time detective movie set in the late fifties or early sixties. It has a great list of actors. The architecture is great too!
If you like it - the sequel is "The Drowning Pool!" You might want to try China Town, The Two Jakes, LA Confidential and the Black Dahlia too.
Summary of Harper
: Im Auftrag der reichen Mrs. Sampson sucht Privatdetektiv Harper ihren spurlos verschwundenen Ehemann. Scheinbar wurde der Millionär entführt â?" und Harper trifft gleich auf mehrere Verdächtige, denen er allesamt mehr als lästig ist, darunter seine Auftraggeberin (Lauren Bacall), ein Anwalt mit nervösem Finger am Abzug (Arthur Hill), ein Swimmingpool-Gigolo (Robert Wagner), ein versoffenes Ex-Starlet (Shelley Winters), ein Jazz-Junkie (Julie Harris) und Harpers Ex-Frau (Janet Leigh). Paul Newman zeigt eine unvergessliche Leistung als Titelheld dieses Kassenknüllers nach Ross MacDonalds Reiche sterben auch nicht anders. Newman hatte damals bereits 23 Filme gedreht, aber noch nie einen Detektiv gespielt â?" mit Ein Fall für Harper gab er dem Genre neue Impulse. In seinem cleveren Skript erweist sich William Goldman als Meister scharfzüngiger Dialoge.Similar DVD Movies
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