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Audiences rate it 17 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes95%
Metacritic51/100
Audiences rate it 17 points higher than critics do.
201 audience votes
Key crew
- Jack SmightDirector
- William GoldmanScreenplay
- Johnny MandelOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Paul NewmanLew Harper
- Lauren BacallElaine Sampson
- Julie HarrisBetty Fraley
- Arthur HillAlbert Graves
- Janet LeighSusan Harper
- Pamela TiffinMiranda Sampson
- Robert WagnerAllan Taggert
- Robert WebberDwight Troy
- Shelley WintersFay Estabrook
- Harold GouldSheriff Spanner
- Roy JensonPuddler
- Strother MartinClaude
Stills
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Themes
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The Best Movies of 1966
Harper is #48 of 60
