The Drowning Pool (1975)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.4/10   

Director:

Stuart Rosenberg

Escritores:

Ross Macdonald (novel)
Tracy Keenan Wynn (writer) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

julio 1975 (USA)

Género:

Suspenso | Misterio

Frase comercial:

Harper days are here again...

Plot:

A big-city private detective travels to the Deep South to help out an old girlfriend who is being blackmailed.

Plot Keywords:

Louisiana | Detective | Blackmail | Private Detective | Underwater

Premios:

1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Some pleasure

Reparto

Paul Newman	...	Lew Harper
Joanne Woodward	...	Iris Devereaux
Anthony Franciosa	...	Chief Broussard (as Tony Franciosa)
Murray Hamilton	...	Kilbourne
Gail Strickland	...	Mavis Kilbourne
Melanie Griffith	...	Schuyler Devereaux
Linda Haynes	...	Gretchen
Richard Jaeckel	...	Lt. Franks
Paul Koslo	...	Candy
Joe Canutt	...	Glo
Andrew Robinson	...	Pat Reavis (as Andy Robinson)
Coral Browne	...	Olivia Devereaux
Richard Derr	...	James Devereaux
Helena Kallianiotes	...	Elaine Reavis
Leigh French	...	Red Head

También conocida como:

Con el agua al cuello (Spain) [es]

Duración:

108 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés | Francés

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

Germany:12 (re-rating) (2006) | West Germany:16 (original rating) | Portugal:M/12 | Australia:PG | Finland:K-16 | Netherlands:12 | Norway:16 | Sweden:15 | USA:PG | Canada:PG (Ontario)

Locaciones de Filmación:

French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Compañía:

Coleytown

Trivialidades:

Average Shot Length = ~7.2 seconds. Median Shot Length = ~7.3 seconds.

Citas:

Schuyler Devereaux: How'd you like to help me put on some suntan lotion?
Lew Harper: Wont help honey, you're gonna be burned out by the time you're 30.

Conexiones de Película:

Sigue Harper (1966)

Banda de Sonido:

Sweet Dreams

Some pleasure

It's a lot better than Harper. Newman has fewer tics and the story moves along smoother. Harper had no dynamism because Jack Smight is a terrible action director; the only excitement came from the exchanges between Newman and Arthur Hill in the car. Stuart Rosenberg can be relied on to throw enough kinkiness and ambiguity at us to keep our interest.

Melanie Griffith was used better by Arthur Penn in Night Moves; it's too bad the kitten with a whip persona had to end when she grew up. Andy Robinson was so good as the villain in so many pictures--that sensual face worked well for him, as it does here. You'd expect to see him at Andy Warhol's Factory. Gail Strickland and Murray Hamilton as the rich couple were enjoyable to watch. If Joanne Woodward's part had been better written, she could have given us more than just the nervous belle. An average picture, affording some pleasure for Paul Newman completists.