The Drowning Pool
6.3 / Rating
1975
Harper is brought to Louisiana to investigate an attempted blackmail scheme. He soon finds out that it involves an old flame of his and her daughter. He eventually finds himself caught in a power struggle between the matriarch of the family and a greedy oil baron, who wants their property. Poor Harper! Things are not as straight-forward as they initially appeared.
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The Drowning Pool is a 1975 American mystery thriller film starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, and Anthony Franciosa. Directed by Stuart Rosenberg, the film is based upon Ross Macdonald's novel The Drowning Pool, and is treated as a loose sequel to 1966's Harper with its setting shifted from Southern California to Louisiana.
