They're showing 'The Drowning Pool' on a UK television station next week. I saw
it on its first release but can't recall much about it now -- not a good sign,
usually.
'Harper' was released here as 'The Moving Target' which I believe was the title
of the Ross MacDonald Lew Archer novel upon which it was based. I never could
understand the reasoning behind the name change for movie purposes, but no doubt
those clever all-knowing marketing guys had their reasons.
I think originally the makers had intended adapting Chandler's 'The Long
Goodbye' with Robert Mitchum as Marlowe but failed to get the green light on the
project, so they made 'The Moving Target' instead with Paul Newman not
resembling Lew Archer any more than Elliott Gould did Marlowe in Robert Altman's
art movie subversion of Chandler's themes.
Patrick
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Subject: RARA-AVIS: Harper about to come on - TCM
It will be my first time seeing it. I did enjoy Twilight.
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