The Drowning Pool is a 1975 American neo-noir thriller film directed by Stuart Rosenberg, and based upon Ross Macdonald’s novel of the same name. The film stars Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, and Anthony Franciosa. Los Angeles-based private investigator Lew Harper flies to Louisiana to do a job for his ex-flame.
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The Drowning Pool is a 1975 American neo-noir thriller film directed by Stuart Rosenberg, and based upon Ross Macdonald’s novel of the same name. The film stars Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, and Anthony Franciosa, and is a loose sequel to Harper. Los Angeles-based private investigator Lew Harper flies to Louisiana to do a job for his ex-flame, Iris Devereaux. She believes the family’s ex-chauffeur is the person who is blackmailing her with the knowledge that she has cheated on her husband. Despite the ever-growing body count in what started as a simple case of blackmail, and despite Iris’s pleading with him to give up on the case and go home, Harper continues investigating. This leads to the climactic scene of the film’s title, with J. J. Kilbourne and his henchman torturing Harper and Mavis to find out where the notebook is, their desperate attempt to escape. The New York Times called it one of the best mysteries of the year.
In 1966, a film was made of a film of a Lew Archer novel called The Archer, starring Paul Newman. The novel was based on a script by William Goldman, who then wrote a follow-up adaptation, but that movie was never made. In 1973, producers David Foster and David Turman announced they had optioned the rights to the novel The Drowned Pool for director Robert Mulligan and had hired Walter Hilling and Walter Hill to adapt it for the movie. It did not get made, but a draft of the script was turned into a film based on The Chilled Pool, starring Walter Hill and David Foster, which was released in 1973. The movie was released the same year as the novel, but with a different set of credits and a different ending. The book was published in 1950, and the film was released a year later, in 1973, with a new ending.
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