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Harper (released in the United Kingdom as The Moving Target) is a 1966 American mystery thriller film directed by Jack Smight from a screenplay by William Goldman, based on the 1949 novel The Moving Target by Ross Macdonald. [2]
With Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris, Arthur Hill. Cool private investigator Lew Harper is hired by a wealthy California matron to locate her kidnapped husband.
99+ Photos. Hard-boiled Detective Crime Drama Mystery Thriller. Cool private investigator Lew Harper is hired by a wealthy California matron to locate her kidnapped husband. Director. Jack Smight. Writers. William Goldman. Ross Macdonald. Stars. Paul Newman. Lauren Bacall. Julie Harris. See production info at IMDbPro. RENT/BUY. from $3.99.
- (11K)
- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Jack Smight
- 1966-03-30
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.
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The most memorable sequence in the film is the opening, where Lew Harper is desperate for a cup of coffee, and has to use the filter with yesterday’s grounds in from the waste bin, setting that he is impoverished and seedy.
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The film that definitely helped create the image of Paul Newman as the cool film star with an abundance of charm and eyes of a compassionate, trusting, rugged-but-sensitive man is Harper, the Jack Smight directed thriller about a private eye in search of a missing millionaire.
