Here's our roundup of the best new series of the year so far, and where to watch them. Harper is abducted by two hoods working for the oil magnate J.J. Kilbourne, who thinks Harper might be useful in his efforts to get ownership of some of Olivia Devereaux's oil-rich properties, which she is content to maintain as bird sanctuaries. The Drowning Pool What has Stuart Rosenberg got on Paul Newman? Their meeting in the motel room brings Harper to the attention of police chief Broussard and the disagreeable Lieutenant Franks. What he uncovers is a web of tangled affairs and distractions all clouded by the murky water of the drowning pool. SPLITTING JAWS WITH THE HAPPY BOOKER: A TALK WITH A CIRCUIT BUYER You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. New York Times 3 Dec 1950: BR30. Title: The film stars Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, and Anthony Franciosa, and is a loose sequel to Harper. His influential employer, Iris Devereaux (Joanne Woodward) is an old flame from California, whom he had a love interest with six years ago. The Drowning Pool, set in California and first published in 1950, is Archer's second outing and the most formally assured of the series. The Drowning Pool was released on November 14, 2006, as part of the Paul Newman Collection DVD box set. Alfred Jingle, In 1966 Ross MacDonald's private investigator Lew Harper (Paul Newman) was hired by a wealthy matron to find a missing husband. The drowning pool by Ross Macdonald, 1996, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard edition, in English - 1st Vintage Crime/Black Lizard ed. In Vinegaroon, Texas, former outlaw Roy Bean appoints himself the judge for the region and dispenses his brand of justice as he sees fit. . When a prosecutor leaks a false story that a liquor warehouse owner is involved in the murder of a union head, the man's life begins to unravel. Nurse Barbra The project represented the vision of drummer Mike Luce and guitarist C.J. This meant the film was co-produced by First Artists at Warner Bros. By July 1974, Joanne Woodward had agreed to co-star and Lorenzo Semple had rewritten the script. She is working behind her husband's back trying to find an account book containing information of his illicit business dealings, which he is desperate to recover and would kill her over if he knew she had a hand in its disappearance. All in all, a superb movie for cast and characters and one which easily marks this film as a Classic. [8], Newman said, "a character like Harper is very easy. Barbra Nightingale: SELECTED SHORTS DETECTIVE WHO? A.H. Weiler of The New York Times said in the review: "Under Stuart Rosenberg's muscular but pedestrian direction, the script, adapted from (Ross Macdonald's) 1950 novel, transports our hero from his native California to present-day New Orleans and its bayou environs. Use the HTML below. 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