Gratuitous “Harper” Film Clip

I just returned from playing a bit of tennis, and the sun is shining (finally) in Seattle, and I’ve begun to think that maybe--just maybe--summer will arrive soon. Which immediately put me in mind of this clip from 1966’s Harper, a film that was adapted from Ross Macdonald’s first Lew Archer novel, The Moving Target (1949). That movie found Paul Newman playing the slightly renamed private eye Lew Harper, working an odd kidnapping case. The scene below finds Newman questioning Robert Wagner (who plays the missing man’s pilot) and a delightfully plush young Pamela Tiffin (as the kidnap victim’s daughter). Ah, the joys of summer ...



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