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Based on Ross [=MacDonald=]'s Lew Archer novel ''The Moving Target''. Newman reprised the Harper role in the 1975 film ''The Drowning Pool''.
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Based on Ross [=MacDonald=]'s Lew Archer novel ''The Moving Target''. Newman reprised the Harper role in the 1975 film ''The Drowning Pool''.
''Film/TheDrowningPool''.
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** [[TheHeavy Dwight Troy]] appears in a doorway, holding a gun on Harper and threatening him.
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** [[TheHeavy Dwight Troy]] appears in a doorway, holding a gun on Harper and threatening him.
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* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler:Allen Taggert. Harper initiates this reveal by bad-mouthing Betty, whom he suspects Allen is secretly in love with, and when Allen can't stand it anymore, he pulls a gun on Harper and reveals he was one of the ones who kidnapped Ralph Sampson]].
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* SatelliteLoveInterest: Susan basically exists to give Harper something to feel bad about, and to provide a booty call in one scene.
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* SatelliteLoveInterest: Susan basically exists to give Harper something to feel bad about, and to provide a booty call in one scene.[[note]]Her character is in other Archer novels, but not ''The Moving Target''.[[/note]]
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Lew Harper (Newman) is a rumpled, world-weary private detective who's in the middle of a divorce from his wife Susan (Creator/JanetLeigh). His friend Albert Graves (Arthur Hill), an attorney, brings him a job. Albert's client, Ralph Sampson, has disappeared. Samspon's embittered ex-wife Elaine (Creator/LaurenBacall) certainly doesn't care if Ralph lives or dies, but hires Harper out of a sense of obligation more than anything else. Sure enough, Samspon has been kidnapped.
Harper finds himself drawn into a mystery involving Samspon's sexy daughter Miranda (Pamela Tiffin), his pilot/flunkie Allan Taggert (Creator/RobertWagner), drug-addicted nightclub singer Betty Fraley (Creator/JulieHarris), all-around sleazeball Dwight Troy (Robert Webber), and Troy's sad alcoholic wife, former actress Fay Estabrook (Creator/ShelleyWinters).
Harper finds himself drawn into a mystery involving Samspon's sexy daughter Miranda (Pamela Tiffin), his pilot/flunkie Allan Taggert (Creator/RobertWagner), drug-addicted nightclub singer Betty Fraley (Creator/JulieHarris), all-around sleazeball Dwight Troy (Robert Webber), and Troy's sad alcoholic wife, former actress Fay Estabrook (Creator/ShelleyWinters).
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Lew Harper (Newman) is a rumpled, world-weary private detective who's in the middle of a divorce from his wife Susan (Creator/JanetLeigh). His friend Albert Graves (Arthur Hill), an attorney, brings him a job. Albert's client, Ralph Sampson, has disappeared. Samspon's Sampson's embittered ex-wife Elaine (Creator/LaurenBacall) certainly doesn't care if Ralph lives or dies, but hires Harper out of a sense of obligation more than anything else. Sure enough, Samspon Sampson has been kidnapped.
Harper finds himself drawn into a mystery involvingSamspon's Sampson's sexy daughter Miranda (Pamela Tiffin), his pilot/flunkie Allan Taggert (Creator/RobertWagner), drug-addicted nightclub singer Betty Fraley (Creator/JulieHarris), all-around sleazeball Dwight Troy (Robert Webber), and Troy's sad alcoholic wife, former actress Fay Estabrook (Creator/ShelleyWinters).
Harper finds himself drawn into a mystery involving
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Lew Harper (Newman) is a rumpled, world-weary private detective who's in the middle of a divorce from his wife Susan (Creator/JanetLeigh). His friend Albert Graves (Arthur Hill), an attorney, brings him a job. Albert's client, Ralph Sampson, has disappeared. Samspon's embittered ex-wife Elaine (Creator/LaurenBacall) certainly doesn't care if Ralph lives or dies, but hires Harper out of a sense of obligation more than anything else. Sure enough, Samspon has been kidnapped. Harper is drawn into a mystery that involves Samspon's sexy daughter Miranda (Pamela Tiffin), his pilot/flunkie Allan Taggert (Creator/RobertWagner), a drug-addicted nightclub singer named Betty Fraley (Julie Harris), all-around sleazeball Dwight Troy (Robert Webber), and Troy's sad alcoholic wife, former actress Fay Estabrook (Creator/ShelleyWinters).
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Lew Harper (Newman) is a rumpled, world-weary private detective who's in the middle of a divorce from his wife Susan (Creator/JanetLeigh). His friend Albert Graves (Arthur Hill), an attorney, brings him a job. Albert's client, Ralph Sampson, has disappeared. Samspon's embittered ex-wife Elaine (Creator/LaurenBacall) certainly doesn't care if Ralph lives or dies, but hires Harper out of a sense of obligation more than anything else. Sure enough, Samspon has been kidnapped.
Harperis finds himself drawn into a mystery that involves involving Samspon's sexy daughter Miranda (Pamela Tiffin), his pilot/flunkie Allan Taggert (Creator/RobertWagner), a drug-addicted nightclub singer named Betty Fraley (Julie Harris), (Creator/JulieHarris), all-around sleazeball Dwight Troy (Robert Webber), and Troy's sad alcoholic wife, former actress Fay Estabrook (Creator/ShelleyWinters).
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