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  1. The Drowning Pool is a 1975 American mystery thriller film directed by Stuart Rosenberg, and based upon Ross Macdonald's novel of the same name. The film stars Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, and Anthony Franciosa, and is a loose sequel to Harper. The setting is shifted from California to Louisiana.

  2. Jul 18, 1975 · The Drowning Pool: Directed by Stuart Rosenberg. With Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, Murray Hamilton. Harper's a big-city PI, who travels to Louisiana to help an old girlfriend who's worried her husband will find out she's been cheating on him.

  3. Academy Award winners Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward star in this thriller about a big-city private detective who travels to the Deep South to help a former girlfriend ... only to be caught in ...

  4. A New Orleans oil heiress (Joanne Woodward) hires private eye Lew Harper (Paul Newman) to unravel a blackmail scheme. Rent The Drowning Pool on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, Apple TV, or buy...

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    • Crime, Drama
    • PG
  5. Macdonald's story, as always, connects the current crisis to events from a couple of decades ago.All of this is good, straightforward thriller material, and could have made a decent B movie. But since "The Drowning Pool" is a Paul Newman vehicle, it goes first class, and that turns out to be fatal.

  6. Apr 13, 2018 · The Drowning Pool (1975) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p] HD Retro Trailers. 112K subscribers. Subscribed. 175. 20K views 6 years ago. Directed by Stuart Rosenberg. With Paul Newman, Joanne...

  7. Synopsis. When Private detective Lew Harper ( Paul Newman) arrives in New Orleans, Louisiana, to meet a new client, he is surprised that the telegram requesting his services, written by Mrs. James Deveraux, was sent by his former lover, Iris ( Joanne Woodward ). Although Iris and Harper spent a week together six years earlier, Iris explains ...

  8. Jun 20, 2011 · When Los Angeles based private eye Lew Harper is summoned to Louisiana on a case by Iris, a former lover who has married into a prominent New Orleans family, he finds himself drawn into a web of blackmail, extortion, crooked businessmen and murder.

  9. Overview. 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!

  10. The Drowning Pool is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Stuart Rosenberg, and based upon Ross Macdonald's novel of the same name. The film stars Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, and Anthony Franciosa, and is a sequel to Harper.