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Los Angeles, California | Private Eye
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Best Motion Picture | 1967 | William
Best Written American Drama | 1967 | William
Budget 3,500,000 USD
Box Office Collection 12,000,000 USD
Years after they made this film, Paul Newman and Shelley Winters appeared together as guests on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962). When Carson asked Winters, "Have you and Paul ever worked together?", Winters replied, "No, we haven't had the opportunity." Newman did an astonished double-take. "We haven't? What was I in Harper (1966)? Chopped liver?" To her embarrassment, Winters admitted that she had forgotten about the movie. Newman was incredulous. "I made love to you for two days, in front of the cameras! You tell me you forgot about *that*?"
The opening credits sequence: William Goldman later said he knew he'd succeed as a screenwriter as soon as he wrote the opening scene in Harper (1966) in which Harper is forced to recycle used coffee grounds from the trash for his morning cup of coffee. Harper's dismay at the result, as realized by Paul Newman on screen, immediately created empathy between the character and the audience. Ironically, that opening sequence was the last thing he wrote for that script.
This is the first of four movies that Paul Newman made with Strother Martin. It was followed by Cool Hand Luke, (1967) and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, (1969) and Slapshot(1977.)
According to Frank Miller at the TCMDb, the success of source novelist Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer detective series "didn't stop [actor Paul] Newman from changing the name of Macdonald's most famous detective, however. Struck by his success in two films beginning with the letter "h" - The Hustler (1961) and Hud (1963), Newman asked that the private eye's name be changed from Archer to Harper". However, alternatively, Wikipedia states "The name of the lead character was changed from Lew Archer to [Lew] Harper because the producers had not bought the rights to the series, just to 'The Moving Target'. [Screenwriter William] Goldman later wrote 'so we needed a different name and Harper seemed OK, the guy harps on things, it's essentially what he does for a living'."
The house used as the Sampson estate, Beverly House, is the same place used as Jack Woltz's mansion in "The Godfather".
"Lew Harper: The bottom is loaded with nice people, Albert. Only cream and bastards rise."
"Bartender: It's two after six. We don't serve domestic after six. Only imported. Harper: Terrific. Keep the change. Bartender: There is no change. Harper: [pause] Keep it anyway."
