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Lew Harper, a cool private investigator, is hired by a wealthy California matron to locate her kidnapped husband.
Lew Harper is a Los Angeles based private investigator whose marriage to Susan Harper, who he still loves, is ending in imminent divorce since she can't stand being second fiddle to his work, which is always taking him away at the most inopportune of times. His latest client is tough talking and physically disabled Elaine Sampson, who wants him to find her wealthy husband, Ralph Sampson, missing now for twenty-four hours, ever since he disappeared at Van Nuys Airport after having just arrived from Vegas. No one seems to like Ralph, Elaine included. She believes he is cavorting with some woman, which to her would be more a fact than a problem. Harper got the case on the recommendation of the Sampsons' lawyer and Harper's personal friend, milquetoast Albert Graves, who is unrequitedly in love with Sampson's seductive daughter, Miranda Sampson. Miranda, who Harper later states throws herself at anything "pretty in pants", also has a decidedly cold relationship with her stepmother, Elaine. As Harper begins his investigation, he is often joined by one or two new sidekicks, Miranda, and/or Allan Taggert, Sampson's private pilot who was the last person to see him before his disappearance. Living on the Sampson estate, Allan is also Miranda's casual boyfriend who Harper coins "Beauty" because of his preppy good looks. They discover that Sampson has indeed been kidnapped as they receive a ransom note. As Harper follows leads, he ends up in the underbelly of Los Angeles society, which includes encounters with Betty Fraley, a junkie lounge singer, Fay Estabrook, an ex-movie ingénue now overweight alcoholic, and Claude, a religious cult leader. At each of Harper's stops, people seem to want to beat him up or worse kill him. The case takes a slight turn after they decide to pay the $500,000 ransom to see where it leads.
Starring Paul Newman at the height of his powers, along with an excellent cast especially featuring Hollwood's great actresses, including Lauren Bacall, Shelley Winters, and Vivien Leigh. I continue to remain puzzled by my disappointment with this movie.
It's an attempt at the ever-popular 'noir' genre, but never seems to quite work. The script is excellent. Newman in particular has some great lines. Lauren Bacall also plays her usual combination of steel and acid with aplomb. Robert Wagner features as a pilot turned would-be playboy.
The plot entails a kidnapping conspiracy, but things inevitably slip out of kilter. Most of the twists are predictable, most of the characters are pretty two-dimensional. Yet the actors for the most part give solid turns and the repartee is entertaining. I've no particular complaint with the technical issues either.
Perhaps that's the problem. It's entertaining rather than thrilling. Newman is just too likable. He seems to be playing his part for laughs as much as drama. The bogus telephone conversation with his wife is a case in point. It's not particularly sinister. Suspense is practically non-existent. One or two scenes, like the 'torture' of a female conspirator are stagy and scarcely plausible.
Newman was, I think, miscast for the part. Old hands like bogey and Mitchum may have been all too obvious choices, but I think they'd have brought the right level of noirish suspense to the character - and by implication - the movie as a whole.
I recently watched 'Hombre'. That's another Newman vehicle from the same period. Both are filmed in B/W. Both have an excellent support cast and each has an entertaining script. Yet the latter was a much more solid presentation by far.
Good, but no cigar.
I mainly decided to try this film because it was recommended and the leading star was appealing, even with not much knowledge of the plot. Basically Mrs. Sampson (Lauren Bacall) has hired private eye detective Lew Harper (Paul Newman) to find her missing husband. As he searches for Mr. Sampson he meets all the people who may have been last to have seen him, all an assortment unsavoury characters. He also gets himself into some scrapes and difficult situations, and doesn't seem to be getting any closer to actually finding Mr. Samspon, in fact, in the end he doesn't. Also starring Julie Harris as Betty Fraley, Arthur Hill as Albert Graves, Janet Leigh as Susan Harper, Pamela Tiffin as Miranda Sampson, Robert Wagner as Allan Taggert, Robert Webber as Dwight Troy, Shelley Winters as Fay Estabrook, Harold Gould as Sheriff, Strother Martin as Claude and Roy Jenson as Puddler. Newman does a confident performance, the direction is pacey in moments, it is a detective thriller with some good moments. Very good!
Some excellent directorial touches and solid thesping are evident in the colorful and plush production. Abundance of comedy and sometimes extraneous emphasis on cameo characters make for a relaxed pace and imbalanced concept, resulting in overlength and telegraphing of climax.
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