Harper (1966) | |
| Director(s) | Jack Smight |
| Producer(s) | Jerry Gershwin, Elliott Kastner |
| Top Genres | Crime, Drama, Mystery |
| Top Topics | Detectives |
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Harper (1966) was a Crime - Mystery Film directed by Jack Smight and produced by Elliott Kastner and Jerry Gershwin.
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The Deadly Affair and Harper
By Rick29 on Aug 7, 2023 From Classic Film & TV CafeJames Mason as Charles Dobbs.The Deadly Affair (1967). James Mason stars as Charles Dobbs--a renamed George Smiley--in Sidney Lumet's moderately successful adaptation of John Le Carre's novel Call for the Dead. The plot is more mystery than espionage as Dobbs tries to discover whether a diplomat (re... Read full article
book: The Lost Man (2018) by Jane Harper
By John Grant on Apr 7, 2019 From NoirishI hugely enjoyed Jane Harper’s first novel, The Dry, then enjoyed her second, Force of Nature, even more than that. I think her third, The Lost Man, somehow manages to be the best of the three. I’m awestruck by the talents of this UK/Australian author. The setting is the Australian Out... Read full article
O Ca?ador de Aventuras / Harper (1966)
By L? on Sep 16, 2018 From Critica RetroO Ca?ador de Aventuras / Harper (1966) Um fato pouco conhecido na comunidade de cinema cl?ssico ? que eu queria ser detetive quando era crian?a. OK, esse pode n?o ser um fato relevante para a comunidade de cinema cl?ssico, mas ? importante para este artigo. Quando crian?a, minha ?nica refer?... Read full article
book: Force of Nature (2017) by Jane Harper
By John Grant on Apr 25, 2018 From NoirishI read Jane Harper’s debut novel The Dry last year and enjoyed it very much, so when I spotted its successor I grabbed it. And quite rightly so, as I discovered: if anything I like Force of Nature the better of the two novels, which is saying something. A Melbourne company sends ten of its em... Read full article
On Blu-ray: Paul Newman is Detective Lew Harper in Harper (1966) and The Drowning Pool (1975)
By KC on Mar 28, 2018 From Classic MoviesPaul Newman took a crack at playing a gumshoe for the first time in Harper (1966), following that success years later with the sequel, The Drowning Pool (1975). This pair of films was inspired by Ross MacDonald’s novels about the detective Lew Archer, which was changed to Harper for the adapt... Read full article
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Susan Harper: Do you hear me, Lew? I don't love you. And you can get shot in some stinking alley and I'll be a little sorry, sure, but that's all! Just a little sorry. Tell him that, lawyer. Tell the man he is *not loved*.
Fay Estabrook: [in a small scared voice after she briefly awakens when Harper has dumped her drunken body on the sofa] Don't try to do anything to me tonight, dumpling, everything is tilting! Some other time, any other...
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The opening credits sequence (where Harper makes himself a terrible cup of coffee, among other things) was written and shot after the first cut of the film had already been delivered to the studio.
Average Shot Length = ~8.5 seconds. Median Shot Length = ~7.9 seconds.
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