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- 1975
- PG
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 48 m
- 1975
- PG
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 48 m
Summary A big-city private detective travels to the Deep South to help out an old girlfriend who is worried that her husband will find out that she is cheating on him.
Directed By: Stuart Rosenberg
- 1975
- PG
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 48 m
- 1975
- PG
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 48 m
The Drowning Pool
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Summary A big-city private detective travels to the Deep South to help out an old girlfriend who is worried that her husband will find out that she is cheating on him.
Directed By: Stuart Rosenberg
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Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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88% Mixed
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
48
13% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
88% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
0% Negative
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A slick, stylish sequel to Harper (1966), this private-eye film has Newman reprising the role of Ross MacDonald's cool gumshoe, Lew Harper.
The Drowning Pool is stylish, improbable, entertaining, superficial, well cast, and totally synthetic. Stuart Rosenberg’s direction is functional and unexciting.
The exception to a listless cast is Murray Hamilton as the oil-develper villain, an eloquently indirect Southerner with enough shifts in mood to make one whis he had a larger part, but not regret the movie's one payoff--his well staged and satisfactory demise. [14 July 1975, p.58]
You can tell from the credit sequence—when Paul Newman takes four minutes to execute a simple expository gag—that this Stuart Rosenberg sequel to Harper is likely to be an interminable drag. And the opener is really the high point of an alleged thriller that wastes the talents of Newman, Joanne Woodward, Murray Hamilton, and Tony Franciosa, and telegraphs all its narrative twists with the subtlety of a Chicago building inspector explaining how to avoid a violation.
This second time around for Harper is a lackluster workout despite its colorful settings, occasional tension and a cast that includes Joanne Woodward (Mrs. Newman). As a convoluted caper it generates action rather than character and surface mystery rather than meaning.
A confusing and not very exciting private eye caper.
A tired piece of hackwork rescued only by the presence of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. The whole enterprise moves in slow motion, with its programed music predicting each routine step. [07 July 1975, p.57]
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