Country: USA
Year: 1966
Duration: 121'
Recommended by an old lawyer friend, the private eye Lew Harper, who is about to divorce his wife, agrees to investigate the disappearance of a millionaire. This leads him into a world of disillusion and corruption, with frustrated wives, spoiled heiresses, charming and louche airplane pilots, down-at-the-heels former stars, and drug addicted singers. And he discovers that all of them, in their own way, are guilty. Based on the novel The Moving Target by Ross Macdonald, a 1960s noir that deals with the typical Hollywood theme of the family crisis and moral crisis in American society. Newman’s character as the detective returns in The Drowning Pool.
Biography
film director
Jack Smight
(Minneapolis, USA, 1925 – Los Angeles, USA, 2003), director and actor, debuted as a directing in the immediate post-war era; between movies and TV, he directed over fifty films, working until the end of the 1980s. His major successes include the thriller starring Paul Newman Harper, based on The Moving Target by Ross Macdonald; the murder-mystery comedy starring Warren Beatty Kaleidoscope; the war movie Midway; and above all, the catastrophic Airport 1975, which, with Crystal Inferno, was the most famous movie of a genre that was typical of the ‘70s.
FILMOGRAFIA
I’d Rather Be Rich (Vorrei non essere ricca, 1964), The Third Day (Il terzo giorno, 1965), Harper (Detective’s Story, 1966), Kaleidoscope (La truffa che piaceva a Scotland Yard, 1966), The Secret War of Harry Frigg (Guerra, amore e fuga, 1968), No Way to Treat a Lady (Non si maltrattano così le signore, 1968), The Illustrated Man (L’uomo illustrato, 1969), The Traveling Executioner (Il boia viaggiante, 1970), Rabbit, Run (Coniglio, non scappare, 1970), Partners in Crime (tv, 1973), Double Indemnity (Doppia indennità, film TV, 1973), Frankenstein: The True Story (Frankenstein – Una storia vera, tv, 1973), Airport 1975 (Airport ‘75, 1974), Midway (La battaglia di Midway, 1976), Damnation Alley (L’ultima odissea, 1977), Loving Couples (Quattro passi sul lenzuolo, 1980), Remembrance of Love (Senza nessuna pietà, tv, 1982), Number One with a Bullet (Bersaglio numero uno, 1987), The Favorite (La favorita, 1989).
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Jack Smight. STORY: from the novel The Moving Target di Ross Macdonald. SCREENPLAY: William Goldman. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Conrad L. Hall. EDITING: Stefan Arnsten. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Alfred Sweeney, Claude E. Carpenter. MUSIC: Johnny Mandel. CAST: Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris, Arthur Hill, Janet Leigh, Pamela Tiffin, Robert Wagner, Robert Webber, Shelley Winters, Harold Gould, Strother Martin, Richard Carlyle, Martin West. PRODUZIONE: Jerry Gershwin, Elliott Kastner for Warner Bros., Gershwin-Kastner.
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