The Drowning Pool

film by Rosenberg [1975]

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The Drowning Pool is a 1975 American crime drama film directed by Stuart Rosenberg. It stars Paul Newman reprising his role as private detective Lew Harper, with Joanne Woodward playing his former girlfriend. The film is a sequel to the 1966 hit Harper. Newman's portrayal of Lew Harper is noted as one of his popular antihero roles. The film is based on the novel The Moving Target by Ross Macdonald.12

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Stuart Rosenberg
Films of the 1970s
Rosenberg reteamed with Newman on The Drowning Pool (1975), a sequel to the hit crime drama Harper (1966). Newman reprised the role of private detective Lew Harper, and Woodward was cast as a former girlfriend.
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Rosenberg reteamed with Newman on The Drowning Pool (1975), a sequel to the hit crime drama Harper (1966). Newman reprised the role of private detective Lew Harper, and Woodward was cast as a former girlfriend.
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Harper
…character in a 1975 sequel, The Drowning Pool, costarring his wife, Joanne Woodward.
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…character in a 1975 sequel, The Drowning Pool, costarring his wife, Joanne Woodward.
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Paul Newman
The antiheroes: Fast Eddie Felson to Butch Cassidy
…role for the 1975 sequel, The Drowning Pool. After Alfred Hitchcock’s Torn Curtain (1966), Newman starred in the revisionist western Hombre (1967), which was based on an Elmore Leonard novel. In Cool Hand Luke
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…role for the 1975 sequel, The Drowning Pool. After Alfred Hitchcock’s Torn Curtain (1966), Newman starred in the revisionist western Hombre (1967), which was based on an Elmore Leonard novel. In Cool Hand Luke
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