Harper
“Harper takes a case - and the payoff is murder.”
Harper is a cynical private eye in the best tradition of Bogart. He even has Bogie's Baby hiring him to find her missing husband, getting involved along the way with an assortment of unsavory characters and an illegal-alien smuggling ring.
Genres
Mystery, Crime, Thriller
Studio
Gershwin-Kastner
Language
en
Status
Released
How Harper performed
Budget
$3.5M
Worldwide Gross
$12.0M
Gross Profit
$8.5M
Return
3.4× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$2M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~47/53, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (35% of the domestic run, typical for Mystery) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
Where to Watch
Cast
Lew Harper
Paul Newman
Lew Harper
Elaine Sampson
Lauren Bacall
Elaine Sampson
Betty Fraley
Julie Harris
Betty Fraley
Albert Graves
Arthur Hill
Albert Graves
Susan Harper
Janet Leigh
Susan Harper
Miranda Sampson
Pamela Tiffin
Miranda Sampson
Allan Taggert
Robert Wagner
Allan Taggert
Dwight Troy
Robert Webber
Dwight Troy
Fay Estabrook
Shelley Winters
Fay Estabrook
Sheriff Spanner
Harold Gould
Sheriff Spanner
Puddler
Roy Jenson
Puddler
Claude
Strother Martin
Claude
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