The Drowning Pool PG
Harper, the wisecracking private investigator, goes to New Orleans to help out an old flame, Iris Deveraux. After the murder of her mother-in-law, someone implicates Iris.
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DVD-R Details
- ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO - 2.40:1
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 48 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: November 8, 2016
- Originally Released: 1975
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward & Anthony Franciosa | |
| Performer: | Murray Hamilton, Gail Strickland, Richard Jaeckel, Melanie Griffith, Paul Koslo, Linda Haynes & Andrew Robinson | |
| Directed by | Stuart Rosenberg | |
| Edited by | John C. Howard | |
| Screenplay by | Tracy Keenan Wynn, Lorenzo Semple Jr. & Walter Hill | |
| Composition by | Michael Small | |
| Art Direction by | Edwin O'Donovan | |
| Produced by | David Foster & Lawrence Turman | |
| Director of Photography: | Gordon Willis |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: 2/5 --
As a convoluted caper it generates action rather than character and surface mystery rather than meaning.
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New York Times
About a cool gumshoe with a one-track mind — solving the case he's on
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Spirituality and Practice
Rating: 2/4 --
A confusing and not very exciting private eye caper.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Stylish, improbable, entertaining, superficial, well cast, and totally synthetic.
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Variety
Paul Newman undergoes all kinds of "games" in which performs with enviable ease, elegance and sarcasm. [Full Review in Spanish]
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Espinof
Unfortunately, Rosenberg directs flatly, hopping from one set piece to the next, disjointedly throwing characters of varying interest across Newman's path.
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Time Out
An interminable drag.
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Chicago Reader
Description by OLDIES.com:
A big-city private detective travels to the Deep South to help out an old girlfriend who is worried that her husband will find out that she is cheating on him.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 34,576
- UPC: 888574445973
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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