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The Drowning Pool (1975)
Directed by Stuart Rosenberg
“Harper days are here again...”
Thriller, Mystery · 1h 49m
Harper is brought to Louisiana to investigate an attempted blackmail scheme. He soon finds out that it involves an old flame of his and her daughter. He eventually finds himself caught in a power struggle between the matriarch of the family and a greedy oil baron, who wants their property. Poor Harper! Things are not as straight-forward as they initially appeared.
Cast
Paul Newman
Lew Harper
Joanne Woodward
Iris Devereaux
Richard Derr
James Devereaux
Anthony Franciosa
Chief Broussard
Murray Hamilton
J.Hugh Kilbourne
Gail Strickland
Mavis Kilbourne
Melanie Griffith
Schuyler Devereaux
Linda Haynes
Gretchen
Richard Jaeckel
Lieutenant Franks
Paul Koslo
Candy
J
Joe Canutt
Glo
Andrew Robinson
Pat Reavis
Crew
- Director
- Stuart Rosenberg
- Screenplay
- Tracy Keenan Wynn, Lorenzo Semple Jr., Walter Hill
- Novel
- Ross Macdonald
- Director of Photography
- Gordon Willis
- Original Music Composer
- Michael Small
- Editor
- John C. Howard
- Producer
- David Foster, Lawrence Turman
Details
- Release date
- 1975-07-18
- Runtime
- 1h 49m
- Genres
- Thriller, Mystery
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- First Artists, Coleytown, The Turman-Foster Company, David Foster Productions, Warner Bros. Pictures
- Budget
- $2,700,000
- Box office
- $2,600,000