Fresh
Director Jack Smight has inserted countless touches which illuminate each character to the highest degree.
Variety Staff, Variety
Harper
Harper takes a case - and the payoff is murder.
1966 · 2h 1m · Approved
Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Jack Smight
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Harper
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Jack Smight Director
- Paul Newman as Lew Harper
- Lauren Bacall as Mrs. Sampson
- Julie Harris as Betty Fraley
- Arthur Hill as Albert Graves
- Janet Leigh as Susan Harper
- Pamela Tiffin as Miranda Sampson
- Robert Wagner as Allan Taggert
- Robert Webber as Dwight Troy
- Shelley Winters as Fay Estabrook
- Harold Gould Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
95%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Enjoyable performances throughout. Just the same, a very minor Big Sleep.
Derek Adams, Time Out
Fresh
[Newman] is too fresh, too ruggedly good looking to be consistent as the sort of beat-up slob that his shady detective is intended to be and as Mr. Bogart used to be.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
Fresh
By combining flamboyant suspense with a sunbaked slice of life and lots of good mean fun, Director Smight makes every clue a pleasure to follow.
TIME Magazine
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