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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]
Harper: Directed by Jack Smight. 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.
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Jack Smight
- 1966-03-30
William Goldman. Screenplay. 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.
Jessica Randolph Harper (born October 3, 1949) [1] is an American actress and singer. Harper began her feature film career with a starring role in Brian De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise (1974), and subsequently featured in films including Love and Death (1975), Inserts (1975) and My Favorite Year (1982).
Lew Harper is a Los Angeles based private investigator whose marriage to Susan Harper, who he still loves, is ending in imminent divorce since she can't stand being second fiddle to his work, which is always taking him away at the most inopportune of times.
Harper (released in the UK as The Moving Target) is a 1966 American mystery film based on Ross Macdonald 's 1949 novel The Moving Target and adapted for the screen by novelist William Goldman, who admired MacDonald's writings.
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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.
