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The Drowning Pool (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
103 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1975 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Stuart Rosenberg

Written By:
Tracy Keenan Wynn
Lorenzo Semple Jr.

Actors:
Paul Newman ..... Harper
Joanne Woodward ..... Iris
Anthony Franciosa ..... Broussard
Murray Hamilton ..... Kilbourne
Gail Strickland ..... Mavis
Melanie Griffith ..... Schuyler
Linda Haynes ..... Gretchen
Richard Jaeckel ..... Franks
Paul Koslo ..... Candy
Joe Canutt ..... Glo
Andrew Robinson ..... Pat Reavis
Coral Browne ..... Olivia
Richard Derr ..... James
Helena Kallianiotes ..... Elaine Reavis
Leigh French ..... Red Head

Synopsis:

Harper is brought to Louisiana bayou country to investigate an attempted blackmail scheme. He soon finds out that it involves an old flame of his and her hellion of a daughter. What is more, he finds himself caught in a power struggle between the matriarch of the family and a greedy oil baron, who wants her property. Poor Harper! Things are not as straight-forward as they initially appeared.

Private detective Lew Harper (Paul Newman) investigates a blackmail plot in Louisiana bayou country involving the nymphomaniac daughter (Melanie Griffith) of an old flame of his, Iris Devereaux (Joanne Woodward). Harper is caught up in a power struggle between Iris and oil tycoon Kilbourne (Murray Hamilton), while local police authority Broussard (Anthony Franciosa) has a personal interest in the family and wants the private eye gone. At one point, the complicated plot has Harper and Kilbourne's wife Mavis (Gail Strickland) locked in a hydrotherapy room, with the water rising to the ceiling, hence the film's title.

A big-city private detective travels to the Deep South to help out an old girlfriend who is being blackmailed.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 24 May, 2014.