Harper [Blu-ray]

Overview

Screenwriter William Goldman has claimed that Paul Newman agreed to do Harper, the film that established the grateful writer's career, only because he was working unhappily on Lady L. (1965) in Europe, and was looking for something as unlike that film as possible. He stars as Lew Harper, a hip L.A. private dick whose business has gotten so bad that he's re-using his coffee grounds. At the suggestion of his friend, attorney Albert Graves (Arthur Hill), the detective takes on the investigation of the disappearance of the wealthy husband of waspish cripple Elaine Sampson (Lauren Bacall). After finding a photograph of former actress Fay Estabrook (Shelley Winters), Harper locates the alcoholic actress in a bar, plies her with booze, and takes her home to search her apartment while she's unconscious. There he takes a call which leads him to another bar to meet Betty Fraley (Julie Harris), a singer with a heroin problem. To curtail his inquisitive behavior, some large and unpleasant gentleman beat him up outside the saloon. Hoping for sympathy from his soon to be ex-wife (Janet Leigh), who has just filed divorce papers, the weary detective is much more successful than he has any right to expect.

Product Details

Release Date:	02/27/2018
UPC:	0888574603816
Original Release:	1966
Rating:	NR
Source:	Warner Archives
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Language:	English
Time:	2:01:00
Sales rank:	16,604

Special Features

Commentary by screenwriter William Goldman; Theatrical trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Paul Newman	Actor
Lauren Bacall	Actor
Julie Harris	Actor
Pamela Tiffin	Actor
Arthur Hill	Albert Graves
Janet Leigh	Susan Harper
Robert Wagner	Alan Traggert
Robert Webber	Dwight Troy
Shelley Winters	Fay Estabrook
Harold Gould	Sheriff Spanner
Strother Martin	Claude
Roy Jenson	Puddler
Martin West	Deputy
Jacqueline de Wit	Mrs. Kronberg
Eugene Iglesias	Felix
Richard Carlyle	Fred Platt
Johnny Mandel	Composer
Al Bain	un client dans le bar
Horace Brown	le barman
David Cadiente	Actor
Steve Carruthers	un client dans le bar
Gene Coogan	Actor
Mary Gregory	une serveuse
Kathryn Janssen	Actor
Chester Jones	un serveur
Louise Lane	Actor
China Lee	une danseuse
Murray Pollack	Bar Patron
Martin Priest	Dancer
Cosmo Sardo	Hotel Clerk
Tom Steele	Eddie Fraley
Roseann Williams	Bunny Dancer

Technical Credits

William Goldman

Jack Smight	Director
William Goldman	Screenwriter
Jerry Gershwin	Producer
Elliott Kastner	Producer
Stanley Jones	Sound Effects