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By combining flamboyant suspense with a sunbaked slice of life and lots of good mean fun, Director Smight makes every clue a pleasure to follow. Sep 30, 2008 | Full Review…
By combining flamboyant suspense with a sunbaked slice of life and lots of good mean fun, Director Smight makes every clue a pleasure to follow.
Director Jack Smight has inserted countless touches which illuminate each character to the highest degree. Sep 30, 2008 | Full Review…
Director Jack Smight has inserted countless touches which illuminate each character to the highest degree.
Variety Staff
Enjoyable performances throughout. Just the same, a very minor Big Sleep. Feb 9, 2006 | Full Review…
Enjoyable performances throughout. Just the same, a very minor Big Sleep.
Derek Adams
[Newman] is too fresh, too ruggedly good looking to be consistent as the sort of beat-up slob that his shady detective is intended to be and as Mr. Bogart used to be. May 9, 2005 | Full Review…
[Newman] is too fresh, too ruggedly good looking to be consistent as the sort of beat-up slob that his shady detective is intended to be and as Mr. Bogart used to be.
Bosley Crowther
The Drowning Pool plods along while Harper's pacing has a lot more momentum. Harper is hip and The Drowning Pool takes itself too seriously. Nov 7, 2018 | Full Review…
The Drowning Pool plods along while Harper's pacing has a lot more momentum. Harper is hip and The Drowning Pool takes itself too seriously.
Raquel Stecher
A star-driven Paul Newman crime mystery drama. Nov 2, 2014 | Rating: B- | Full Review…
A star-driven Paul Newman crime mystery drama.
Dennis Schwartz
Supported by colorful characters (played by Lauren Bacall, Shelley Winters, Julie Harris), Paul Newman gives a solid performance in his first private detective role, which catapulted him to major stardom and brought the genre back to the mainstream. Nov 27, 2008 | Rating: B | Full Review…
Supported by colorful characters (played by Lauren Bacall, Shelley Winters, Julie Harris), Paul Newman gives a solid performance in his first private detective role, which catapulted him to major stardom and brought the genre back to the mainstream.
Emanuel Levy
William Goldman's adaptation of MacDonald's novel -- his first solo screenwriting credit -- is full of rapid-fire dialogue, but some of the characterizations are thin. Sep 30, 2008 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
William Goldman's adaptation of MacDonald's novel -- his first solo screenwriting credit -- is full of rapid-fire dialogue, but some of the characterizations are thin.
Harper shows the actor to good advantage, Newman's nonchalant demeanor well suiting the character of the PI. Dec 29, 2006 | Rating: 7/10 | Full Review…
Harper shows the actor to good advantage, Newman's nonchalant demeanor well suiting the character of the PI.
John J. Puccio
Newman smoulders in the lead role, a private eye hired by Bacall to find her missing husband. May 24, 2003 | Full Review…
Newman smoulders in the lead role, a private eye hired by Bacall to find her missing husband.
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