The Drowning Pool (film)
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| The Drowning Pool | |
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| Directed by | Stuart Rosenberg |
| Produced by | David Foster Lawrence Turman |
| Written by | Tracy Keenan Wynn Lorenzo Semple Jr. Walter Hill |
| Starring | Paul Newman Joanne Woodward Anthony Franciosa |
| Music by | Michael Small |
| Cinematography | John C. Howard |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| Release date(s) | 1975 |
| Running time | 109 min |
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The Drowning Pool is a 1975 film based Ross Macdonald's novel, starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, and Anthony Franciosa. It is a sequel to Harper,made in (1966).
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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. Things are not as straightforward as they initially appeared.
One of the film's most particularly gripping scenes features an interrogation between a detective (Paul Newman), and a corrupt cop (Richard Jaeckel). Jaeckel is forced by Paul Newman at gunpoint to reveal information on a crime boss, Jay Hue, and Jaeckel cries out "Sweet screamin' Jesus, I don't know"; at this point Newman is satisfied that all possible information has been retrieved and the interrogation ends.
Jaeckel's character eventually meets his end when crime boss Jay Hue spurs two evil, very obviously male dogs on to kill Jaeckel; the dogs leap onto Jaeckel, killing him offscreen.
The Drowning Pool will be released on November 14, 2006 as part of the Paul Newman Collection DVD box set.
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