Theatrical trailer for the 1966 crime drama HARPER starring Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris, Janet Leigh, Pamela Tiffin, Robert Wagner, Shelley Winters, Arthur Hill, Strother Martin and Robert Webber.
Based on the Ross Macdonald LA Noir mystery Moning Target, this adaptation, using PI Harper instead of Archer because Newman wanted movies that began with H, makes use of Southern Cal locales well (The Beverly Estate, used in other movies like Godfather is a character). The cast is wide: Bacall, Janet Leigh, Wagner, Winters, and a strange hippie-like cult leader played by Strother Martin. It's a good -and fun- movie in that it shows one of the last L.A. mysteries well-adapted to screen. The follow-up Harper was Drowning Pool for unknown reasons shot in Louisiana and co-starring Melanie Griffith and Woodward. Worth seeing.
