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Directed by | Jack Smight |
Screenplay by | William Goldman |
Based on | The Moving Target by Ross Macdonald |
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Cinematography | Conrad Hall |
Edited by | Stefan Arnsten |
Music by | Johnny Mandel |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 121 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $3.5 million |
Box office | $12 million[1] |
Harper (released in the United Kingdom as The Moving Target) is a 1966 American mystery thriller film directed by Jack Smight from a screenplay by William Goldman, based on the 1949 novel The Moving Target by Ross Macdonald.[2] The film stars Paul Newman as Lew Harper (Lew Archer in the novel), with a cast that includes Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris, Arthur Hill, Janet Leigh, Pamela Tiffin, Robert Wagner, and Shelley Winters.
The film pays homage to Humphrey Bogart's portrayals of Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe by featuring Lauren Bacall, Bogart's widow, who plays a wounded wife searching for her missing husband, a role similar to General Sternwood in the 1946 Bogart-and-Bacall film The Big Sleep.
Goldman received a 1967 Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay. In 1975, Newman reprised his role in The Drowning Pool.