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Release Date:
July 1975 (USA)
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Harper days are here again... more
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A big-city private detective travels to the Deep South to help out an old girlfriend who is being blackmailed. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
1 nomination
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Show Review: Crue Fest 2 - 8/22
(From Fangoria. 27 August 2009, 10:30 AM, PDT)
What I Watched, What You Watched: Installment #3
(From Rope Of Silicon. 9 August 2009, 3:21 AM, PDT)
(From Fangoria. 27 August 2009, 10:30 AM, PDT)
What I Watched, What You Watched: Installment #3
(From Rope Of Silicon. 9 August 2009, 3:21 AM, PDT)
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Underrated followup to Harper in a different key
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Paul Newman | ... | Harper |
 | Joanne Woodward | ... | Iris |
 | Anthony Franciosa | ... | Broussard (as Tony Franciosa) |
 | Murray Hamilton | ... | Kilbourne |
| Gail Strickland | ... | Mavis |
 | Melanie Griffith | ... | Schuyler |
 | Linda Haynes | ... | Gretchen |
| Richard Jaeckel | ... | Franks |
 | Paul Koslo | ... | Candy |
| Joe Canutt | ... | Glo |
 | Andrew Robinson | ... | Pat Reavis (as Andy Robinson) |
| Coral Browne | ... | Olivia |
| Richard Derr | ... | James |
| Helena Kallianiotes | ... | Elaine Reavis |
| Leigh French | ... | Red Head |
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108 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Certification:
Germany:12 (re-rating) (2006) |
West Germany:16 (original rating) |
Portugal:M/12 |
Australia:PG |
Canada:14A (video rating) |
Finland:K-16 |
Netherlands:12 |
Norway:16 |
Sweden:15 |
USA:PG |
Canada:PG (Ontario)
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Average Shot Length = ~7.2 seconds. Median Shot Length = ~7.3 seconds.
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J.H. Kilbourne:
I ran a check on you, Mr. Harper. You are not stupid.
Lew Harper: I have my moments.
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Lew Harper: I have my moments.
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Sweet Dreams
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Where Harper was jazzy, amped up for its day and often dark humored in its intrigue and violence, this sequel has more of a laid-back and ultimately melancholy tone. The humor is still there, but the dysfunctional family theme that produced edgy laughs in the earlier film cuts deeper here.
Newman looks great and is as effortlessly effective as ever as he prowls Cajun Country, at the behest of onetime flame Joanne Woodward, in search of a blackmail source that quickly turns into much more. Filmed all over South Louisiana, including a mansion shot here in Baton Rouge, it gets the local flavor down pretty well.
Dismissed as draggy even in its day, and certainly so in the age raised on the newspaper ad quote "A Thrill Ride!!!", it's a thoughtful, well acted addition to the private eye genre, with Melanie Griffith coming out the gate full force as a troublesome nymphet (an interesting predatory flip-side to the victimized variation seen later the same year in the superb Night Moves.)
Hopefully a widescreen DVD will one day soon afford its excellent Panavision photography to be seen for the first time in 25 years.