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! Things are not as straight-forward as they initially appeared.

Harper

1966

English

6.8

♡ 15

95%

73%

Action

adultery

based on novel or book

Crime

Drama

husband wife relationship

Jack Smight Director

Robert Wagner as Allan Taggert

Paul Newman as Lew Harper

Roy Jenson as Puddler

Sheb Wooley as Puddler

Harper is a cynical private eye in the best tradition of Bogart. He even has Bogie's Baby hiring him to find her missing husband, getting involved along the way with an assortment of unsavory characters and an illegal-alien smuggling ring.

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