Fresh
Stylish, improbable, entertaining, superficial, well cast, and totally synthetic.
Variety Staff, Variety
The Drowning Pool
Harper days are here again...
1975 · 1h 49m · PG
Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Stuart Rosenberg
Overview
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.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
53%
Tomatometer
Rotten
As a convoluted caper it generates action rather than character and surface mystery rather than meaning.
A.H. Weiler, New York Times
Rotten
A confusing and not very exciting private eye caper.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten
An interminable drag.
Don Druker, Chicago Reader
Rotten
Unfortunately, Rosenberg directs flatly, hopping from one set piece to the next, disjointedly throwing characters of varying interest across Newman's path.
Time Out
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