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Harper's a big-city PI, who travels to Louisiana to help an old girlfriend who's worried her husband will find out she's been cheating on him.Harper's a big-city PI, who travels to Louisiana to help an old girlfriend who's worried her husband will find out she's been cheating on him.Harper's a big-city PI, who travels to Louisiana to help an old girlfriend who's worried her husband will find out she's been cheating on him.
- Awards
- 1 nomination total
Anthony Franciosa
- Chief Broussard
- (as Tony Franciosa)
Andrew Robinson
- Pat Reavis
- (as Andy Robinson)
Tommy McLain
- Nightclub Band
- (as Tommy McLain and his Mule Train Band)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaDuring post-production, director Stuart Rosenberg hired composer Charles Fox to do additional scoring, integrating the composer's melody "Killing Me Softly With His Song," into the movie. The song had been a #1 hit two years prior, while Fox was scoring Rosenberg's previous film, The Laughing Policeman (1973).
- GoofsThe crew added a lot of air into the water coming out of the pipe in the floor to make it visible to the audience that water was flowing out of said pipe.
- Quotes
Schuyler Devereaux: How do you do Mr Harper?
Lew Harper: Oh sometimes I do better than others.
Schuyler Devereaux: Well I hope so.
- ConnectionsEdited into La classe américaine (1993)
Featured review
The Drowning Pool is Paul Newman's second and last time as private detective Lew Harper. The plot takes him to the Louisiana bayou country where an old flame Joanne Woodward has hired him to trace and find out who's been sending her nasty notes about her sex life.
The investigation quickly centers around recently fired chauffeur Andy Robinson, but before long Newman gets himself immersed in the local politics of the area with a slick oil millionaire (Murray Hamilton), Woodward's nymphomaniac daughter (Melanie Griffith), an obsessed police lieutenant (Anthony Franciosa) and various and sundry other bayou characters. Quite a few of the characters are killed off before the climax.
The Drowning Pool goes somewhat astray in its development, but the ends are nicely tied together at the climax.
The hit song made popular by Helen Reddy in the seventies, Killing Me Softly With His Song, comes from The Drowning Pool. It was a mega hit back in the day and to my amazement I discovered it wasn't even nominated for an Oscar.
Of course my favorite here is Anthony Franciosa. He had an incredible ear for dialect and he really got the Cajun speech patterns down to perfection.
But the real reason I love The Drowning Pool is the scene where Paul Newman and Gail Strickland are locked in a hydrotherapy room by Murray Hamilton. Strickland is Hamilton's wife. Why they are both there I won't say, but their escape from the room is one of the most spectacular ever put on film.
You should see The Drowning Pool for that alone.
The investigation quickly centers around recently fired chauffeur Andy Robinson, but before long Newman gets himself immersed in the local politics of the area with a slick oil millionaire (Murray Hamilton), Woodward's nymphomaniac daughter (Melanie Griffith), an obsessed police lieutenant (Anthony Franciosa) and various and sundry other bayou characters. Quite a few of the characters are killed off before the climax.
The Drowning Pool goes somewhat astray in its development, but the ends are nicely tied together at the climax.
The hit song made popular by Helen Reddy in the seventies, Killing Me Softly With His Song, comes from The Drowning Pool. It was a mega hit back in the day and to my amazement I discovered it wasn't even nominated for an Oscar.
Of course my favorite here is Anthony Franciosa. He had an incredible ear for dialect and he really got the Cajun speech patterns down to perfection.
But the real reason I love The Drowning Pool is the scene where Paul Newman and Gail Strickland are locked in a hydrotherapy room by Murray Hamilton. Strickland is Hamilton's wife. Why they are both there I won't say, but their escape from the room is one of the most spectacular ever put on film.
You should see The Drowning Pool for that alone.
- bkoganbing
- Jun 21, 2006
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- $2,700,000 (estimated)
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