Ross Macdonald - Turner Classic Movies

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Bloody Sunday (2002)

Le Loup de La Cote Ouest (2002)

From Story ("Guilt-Edged Blonde")

Baby's Day Out (1994)

Criminal Behavior (1992)

Source Material (From Novel)

Blue City (1986)

Source Material (From Novel)

Double Negative (1981)

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Harper (1966) -- (Movie Clip) Disciples For Supper

Drowning Pool, The (1975) -- (Movie Clip) Your Wife's Amorous Activities

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Cast (Feature Film)

Bloody Sunday (2002)

Writer (Feature Film)

Le Loup de La Cote Ouest (2002)

From Story ("Guilt-Edged Blonde")

Art Department (Feature Film)

Baby's Day Out (1994)

Misc. Crew (Feature Film)

Criminal Behavior (1992)

Source Material (From Novel)

Blue City (1986)

Source Material (From Novel)

Double Negative (1981)

Source Material (From Novel)

The Drowning Pool (1975)

Source Material (From Novel)

The Underground Man (1974)

Source Material (From Novel)

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Harper (1966) -- (Movie Clip) Disciples For Supper William Goldman's script from Ross MacDonald's Lew Archer novel The Moving Target, L-A private eye Paul Newman (title character) and client's daughter Miranda (Pamela Tiffin) visit mountaintop guru Claude (Strother Martin), in Harper, 1966.

Drowning Pool, The (1975) -- (Movie Clip) Your Wife's Amorous Activities L-A P-I Harper (Paul Newman) visiting his client and one-time lover Iris (Joanne Woodward, of course Mrs. Newman) who summoned him to her Louisiana manor home, where she explains her problem, early in The Drowning Pool, 1975, from the Ross MacDonald novel.

Drowning Pool, The (1975) -- (Movie Clip) Are You Slant Drilling Me? Out-of-town detective Harper (Paul Newman) has been invited at gunpoint to meet Louisiana oil-man J-Hugh Kilbourne (Murray Hamilton), who seems to know all about the case at hand, in The Drowning Pool, 1975, Stuart Rosenberg directing from the Ross MacDonald novel.

Drowning Pool, The (1975) -- (Movie Clip) The Door Was Unlocked Paul Newman as the title character, an L-A detective based on Ross MacDonald's Lew Archer, having learned that the client who flew him to New Orleans was an ex-lover, heads for his motel across Lake Ponchartrain, meeting teenage Schuyler (Melanie Griffith), and cop Richard Jaeckel, early in The Drowning Pool, 1975.

Harper (1966) -- (Movie Clip) You've Got Cops' Eyes Private eye Harper (Paul Newman) tracks down has-been heroin addicted singer Betty (Julie Harris) in an L-A night club, gets punished then rescued by Taggert (Robert Wagner), the eager private pilot for the man he's hunting, in Harper, 1966, from a Ross MacDonald novel.

Harper (1966) -- (Movie Clip) A Poor Thing But Mine Own Detective Harper (Paul Newman, role based on Ross MacDonald's Lew Archer), visits new client Elaine Sampson (Lauren Bacall) in Harper, 1966, this scene shot at William Randolph Hearst's famous "Beverly House," in Beverly Hills.

Harper (1966) -- (Movie Clip) I'm A Very Modern Type Fellow Shooting on location at William Randolph Hearst’s Beverly House, Paul Newman (private eye title character) meets the private pilot (Robert Wagner as Taggert) and daughter (Pamela Tiffin as Miranda) of the man he’s just been hired to find, in Harper, 1966, from a Ross MacDonald novel.

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