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About
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.
Theatrical
Mar 30, 1966
Box Office
$12.0M
Budget
$3.5M
Return
3.4x
Theaters
1
Director
Writer
Producers
Music
Studio
Gershwin-Kastner, Warner Bros. Pictures
Lew Harper Collection
Harper (released in the UK as The Moving Target) is a 1966 American mystery film based on Ross Macdonald's 1949 novel The Moving Target and adapted for the screen by novelist William Goldman, who admi...
Cast
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Paul Newman
Lew Harper
L
Lauren Bacall
Elaine Sampson
J
Julie Harris
Betty Fraley
A
Arthur Hill
Albert Graves
J
Janet Leigh
Susan Harper
P
Pamela Tiffin
Miranda Sampson
R
Robert Wagner
Allan Taggert
R
Robert Webber
Dwight Troy
S
Shelley Winters
Fay Estabrook
H
Harold Gould
Sheriff Spanner
R
Roy Jenson
Puddler
S
Strother Martin
Claude
M
Martin West
Deputy
J
Jacqueline deWit
Mrs. Kronberg
E
Eugene Iglesias
Felix
R
Richard Carlyle
Fred Platt
A
Al Bain
Bar Patron (uncredited)
H
Horace G. Brown
Bartender (uncredited)
D
David Cadiente
Immigrant (uncredited)
S
Steve Carruthers
Bar Patron (uncredited)
