I do not know why it was renamed in UK, maybe another
character existing at
the time with the same name (in UK...). But here is another
case where
Archer lost his name!
In the films made from MacDonald's novels, Paul Newman
playing the PI
character renamed there Lew Harper!!
Explanation: it seems that Newman was believing in these days
that H was a
kind of lucky letter for his career, after the big hits that
were -THE
HUSTLER and -HUD on the screen.
Harper-Newman movies:
HARPER (1966) -by Jack Smight; from The moving Target,
screenplay by
William Goldman
THE DROWNING POOL (1975) by Stuart Rosenberg
E.Borgers
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