Details

Release year: 1975

Storyline

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.

Top credits

Directors

Stuart Rosenberg

Writers

Cast

Paul Newman — Lew Harper
Joanne Woodward — Iris Devereaux
Anthony Franciosa — Chief Broussard
Murray Hamilton — J. Hugh Kilbourne

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Did you know

• During post-production, director Stuart Rosenberg hired composer Charles Fox to do additional scoring, integrating the composer's melody "Killing Me Softly With His Song," into the movie. The song had been a #1 hit two years prior, while Fox was scoring Rosenberg's previous film, The Laughing Policeman (1973).

• When the bartender asks Harper if he wants a "coonass" beer, he means a Cajun (or local) beer.

• At the beginning of the film, Harper gets into an airport rental 1974 Ford Galaxie 500. That was the year Ford and other manufacturers were required by the federal government to install a seat belt-ignition interlock safety system --- which Ford developed --- and Harper struggles to adapt to it. The car would not start without the seat belt being fastened. This proved so hugely unpopular with the public that the company issued a notice to dealers on how to disable the system and the government withdrew the requirement early in the 1975 model year.