Word: newmans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HARPER. As a private eye on a kidnaping case, Paul Newman bites off a chunk of the grand old Bogart tradition and spits it out in slick '60s style. Lauren Bacall, Arthur Hill, and Julie Harris help to complicate the plot...
Harper. As a gum-chewing gumshoe named Harper, Paul Newman stirs awake, forces open his burnt-out baby-blue eyes, and begins to assess the odds against his peace of mind. His Los Angeles office is a rat's nest where the private eye sometimes holes up to sleep. The TV sits humming dumbly through a test pattern that testifies to a restless night. From a wastebasket Harper retrieves some sodden coffee grounds in a filter, brews and glumly drinks a stale, disgusting cupful. Moments later, he roars along the freeway in a rattletrap sports car that...
Thus, with not a word spoken, Newman's game, rank and destination are established beyond doubt. He is hellbent for Bogart country, that raw, rich Big Sleep milieu; and this Warner Brothers revival of a grand old tradition gets him there in style. Based on Ross Macdonald's The Moving Target, and accelerated at a slick '60s pace by Director Jack Smight, Harper gives Newman his feistiest role since...
...Newman responds sharply as a cool and clean-cut Bogeyman who never drinks hard stuff in the morning, never chases broads except for business purposes. His wife, Janet Leigh, loves him, hates his job, wants to slow him down just long enough to settle her suit for divorce...
Sedlacek's 13 points were surpassed only by Penn's hot-shot guards, Jeff Newman and Stan Pawlak, who received the unanimous 14 points...