The list…, Stephen Williamson 3,116 films 1,224 15 Edit, Every feature film on the program at the New Beverly Cinema since Quentin Tarantino took over as programmer. When he asks about Ralph, she recognizes his voice from the phone call.
Harper asks about Ralph Sampson, which alerts Betty that she is not speaking to Troy, so she hangs up. One of the most sarcastic films ever made. (updated through September 2020), letterboxd.com/anne_f_/list/1000-noir-films-they-shot-dark-pictures-didnt/.
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Like the ending though. 1953 Ford F-100 Panel. This…, This is the US schedule, but the Canadian schedule should be similar except for a handful of movies. Newman reportedly followed this routine every morning in real life. Pamela…, "You have a way of starting conversations that end conversations.". When Harper was released back in 1966 it was a big success and one of Paul Newman most popular films of the 60’s but I didn’t feel it at all .
I was bewildered by his horrible treatment of his (soon to be) ex-wife played by Janet Leigh. Sampson, who is described as crazy, alcoholic and egotistical, disappeared after flying from Las Vegas to Los Angeles. Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Shelley Winters, Vivian Leigh, Rober Wagner. Everyone seems head over heels for each other to the point where it becomes a confusing blur of names and faces, but then there’s Lew Harper, plodding his way through both a divorce and the most dangerous case of his career. "[14], The film was a hit at the box office. He confronts Taggert, who pulls a gun on him. Made by fans in Auckland, New Zealand. Enter the recipient's email address. Goldman’s acid one-liners and Newman’s piercing blue eyes couldn’t save this movie from being boring. Harper tells Betty he knows she double-crossed and killed her brother, and she admits to it, saying it was because he had got her addicted to drugs. Based on the great Ross MacDonald’s first Lew Archer novel, The Moving Target, and capturing the bubbling striking and strangeness of burgeoning, fast moving California in the post war era, Harper is an excellent crime thriller with a first-rate cast. Paul Newman Lauren Bacall Julie Harris Arthur Hill Janet Leigh Pamela Tiffin Robert Wagner Robert Webber Shelley Winters Harold Gould Roy Jenson Strother Martin Martin West Jacqueline deWit Eugene Iglesias, 121 mins He menacingly asks Harper some questions, but is satisfied by Harper's cover story that he is just a lovesick fan of the ex-star, Fay. Hope you are off, As a geezer, I just can’t help that I think 4 li, Denim & leather back in season for a watch that ne, Midweek pick-me-up. Why I watched this one? Neither man is sure what to do; each pauses uncertainly, saying to himself, "Aw, hell. Harper is a cynical private eye in the best tradition of Bogart.
As a generation gap noir about a detective adrift in 60s Los Angeles it's more half-hearted than The Long Goodbye. TMDb The direction is crisp and manages to fit in all its twists and turns in a highly enjoyable and never draggy 2 hours. Harper says that Graves will have to shoot him to stop him.
Harper goes looking for Betty and the money in Castle Beach, where she and Taggert had a place, and locates the cottage by finding her white convertible parked outside. Pictures provided by: sthor, Alessandro58. Mobile site. Finally Harper was shot by the great Conrad Hall and the film has a terrifically bright and colorful California feel even though it is essentially a noir in content. 1965 Ford Custom. He's cracking jokes with great one-liners and laughing at everyone throughout the film. When Harper searches the ship he is knocked unconscious from behind. Happy O, Just another GMT Monday... Struggling private eye Lew Harper takes a simple missing-person case that quickly spirals into something much more complex. Sampson is married to the physically disabled but hard-boiled Elaine Sampson (Lauren Bacall). [15], The film earned $5.3 million in North American rentals in 1966. The writing of the female characters was a little disappointing, though, but I guess it matched the tone of the film. As Lew Harper (not Archer as in the original story, as he felt films beginning with a 'H' had a head start in the success ratings), Newman is struggling with an impending divorce with a brittle Janet Leigh, and is sucked into a missing millionaire mystery at the behest of sultry and partially paralysed Lauren Bacall, the droll wife of the nearly departed. Deeper crimes are uncovered including kidnapping, human trafficking and even murder and no one is entirely what they seem. He hears Betty being tortured inside by Troy, Claude and Fay. Film data from TMDb. Display options: Also known as: Détective privé (France) Detective's Story (Italy) Ruchomy cel (Poland) 1958 Chevrolet Task-Force Viking. It’s also by this late date a bit of an under looked classic with a remarkable creative pedigree. They drive after her, and when she sees them following in her car, she flees at high speed along a narrow winding hillside road and is killed when the car swerves off the road. He’s a step above the local police and he doesn’t mind letting them know it to their face. Who’s hired by a sassy Lauren Bacall to find her missing husband, along with sound support from Arthur Hill, Janet Leigh, Robert Wagner and Julie Harris. And it suits the narrative perfectly - a labyrinthine plot about a kidnapped millionaire, a wheelchair bound wife (Lauren Bacall), a playboy gigolo (Robert Wagner), an embittered fading Hollywood starlet (Shelley Winters), a raving cult leader (Strother Martin) and Harper's ex-wife who he's still in…, “The bottom is loaded with nice people, Albert.
Without giving too much away, down on his luck private investigator Lew Harper is hired by an old friend, an ex- Assistant DA and now private attorney Alfred Graves (Arthur Hill) to investigate the disappearance of his client, millionaire grower and developer, Ralph Sampson. Graves cannot bring himself to shoot Harper. A tight, fast-moving genre piece about cynical LA private eye Lew Harper (Newman) who is hired by Mrs. Sampson (Bacall) to investigate the disappearance of her wealthy husband. Not only is there the always terrific Newman as the title character at his most wry, nimble and reluctantly heroic. Honestly would teach an entire class using this movie's frankly embarrassing direction in a film school. Some time later Graves revives Harper. My thoughts on this one? Film Noir: They Shot Dark Pictures, Didn't They?
The movie was also legendary screenwriter William Goldman‘s big breakthrough, establishing him as a major Hollywood writer and adaptor of work and essentially launching his long successful career in the movies. Great character actors also play their parts notably the always indelible Strother Martin, Robert Webber and Harold Gould. Harper tells Graves that he has no choice but to turn him in, Graves replies that he will not allow Harper to do that. Harper was part of his "H" movies of the 1960s. It’s one of Newman’s subtly great performances in that it comes across so effortlessly, as though Harper were just a second skin he was slipping on, and ranks right up there with Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (another Goldman screenplay) and The Sting for moving Newman away from the “angry young man” stereotype of his earlier career — a sort of alternative Brando — and into the persona of the affably cynical, world wise, wise-cracking and sometimes reluctant hero that served him and us as theater-goers so well. But Paul pretended not to notice and his confidence spread to the rest of the cast. Newman has a lot of fun here. There's actually a really interesting history here of studio-produced movies and what Hollywood has always coined as "excessive obviousness." More fun than the other William Goldman-Jack Smight collaboration, 1968's No Way to Treat a Lady, but mostly because of Paul Newman and an excellent supporting cast (Lauren Bacall, Janet Leigh, Shelly Winters, Julie Harris and Robert Wagner). He even has Bogie's Baby hiring him to find her missing husband, getting involved along the way with an assortment of unsavory… Harper (1966) directed by Jack Smight • Reviews, film + cast • Letterboxd The reason he was confident was because William Goldman's script was tight and amusing and the cast kept things bubbling. On the way, Harper tells Graves he knows he is the fourth man, because the locker key is still in Harper's pocket and a kidnapper would have searched him for it while he was unconscious. Feel free…, NOTE: There is a new and improved version of this list currently being compiled. Only cream and bastards rise.". Every other line out of the mouths of almost every character in this film drips with sarcasm. It had been years since I saw this Paul Newman movie. "[9] Goldman says Newman wanted a title with the letter H as he had good luck with one word titles starting with "H" such as The Hustler and Hud. A broken-down private eye sets out to find a rich woman's missing husband. I studied some of those pictures to see what made them tick. Enter your name.
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Newman plays one cool detective. In short, if you’re a Paul Newman fan and crime thriller fan and you haven’t seen Harper yet what are you waiting for?
[12], In the title sequence, Newman dunks his head into a sinkful of ice cubes to rouse himself awake; a bit that he repeated in the 1973 film The Sting. Throw in a tepid Pamela Tiffin as her pouty daughter, Robert Wagner as a Cagney-worshipping wanabee, respectable legal eagle Arthur Hill, and boozy floozy Shelley Winters, and you have something which ticks all the boxes. Taggert is about to kill Harper, but he himself is shot by Graves, who bursts into the room just in time. 1965 Ford Custom 500. We wanted to capture some of the qualities of Double Indemnity and all those earlier Raymond Chandlers and Hammetts – in other words to do a really good movie movie – without being accused of retrogressing. This is a typical mid to late 1960’s technicolour movie . She verifies that the handwriting is Ralph's, and Harper deduces that he has been kidnapped.
She tells them the money is hidden in a deep-freeze storage locker.
He is told Sampson disappeared from the airport after telling a hotel to send a limousine for him. The Goldman-Newman combo alone makes this better than the subpar movie it was probably destined to be.
Pretty great pulpy Conrad Hall cinematography and a nonstop parade of cool California locations are memorable. The job eventually went to Jack Smight, best known then for his TV work, who had recently signed a six-picture deal with Warner Bros. In 1975, Newman reprised the role in The Drowning Pool. While Harper is inside the house he hears gunshots. The film is also packed with other standout actors like the screen legends Lauren Bacall, Shelly Winters, Julie Harris, Janet Leigh and Robert Wagner. "You were hired by a bitch to find scum.". Harper also meets Sampson’s daughter from another marriage, Miranda (played by a very kittenish Pamela Tiffin) and her boyfriend and Sampson’s private pilot, Alan Taggert (Wagner), who also happens to be the last person to see Sampson before he went missing at the LA airport after ordering a limo.
Directed by Jack Smight, who had a middling two decade career, this is buzzing with one-liners, bags of atmosphere, and of course that flash and jaded private detective played with panache by Newman. Since the note assumes they already have the cash, Harper suspects the kidnapper has an inside source. [11], According to Smight, Paul Newman had admired some of the director's work for live TV.
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