![]() Harper gives Kilbourne's gun to Mavis, asking her to watch him while Harper finds a phone to call for help. ![]() ![]() When the water is finally high enough, they find that they can't break the window, and are near drowning when they are ironically saved by Kilbourne returning to torture them more. During this time, Harper uses their clothes to plug the drain, and he and Mavis flood the room in an attempt to reach the skylight. When Harper refuses to give up any information, Kilbourne leaves them overnight to suffer. This leads to Kilbourne and his henchman kidnapping Harper and Mavis to find out where the notebook is, torturing them with a fire hose in an abandoned asylum. When Harper tells Kilbourne he knows about the missing account book, Kilbourne offers him a fortune for it, but Harper just walks away. When Harper later confronts Kilbourne with the information, the oil magnate admits to having hired Reavis, but insists it was only to spy on Olivia Devereaux, not to kill her. Knowing that Franks was involved in the killing of Reavis, Harper ambushes Franks in his own home and forces him to admit that he does jobs for Kilbourne. He correctly deduces that Reavis came into possession of the missing account book and must have given it to a trusted girlfriend for safekeeping. Franks has been injured in a "hunting accident".ĭespite Iris's pleading with him to give up on the case and go home, Harper continues investigating. The next day he is informed by Broussard that, mysteriously, there was no report made to the police of any gunfight, but that Lt. The car they are in is forced off the road by masked gunmen, who shoot Reavis dead but miss Harper, who wounds one of the gunmen. However, he admits to having information that he expects will yield a lot of money, and offers Harper a share of it if he will let him go. En route, Reavis denies involvement in blackmailing Iris and murdering Olivia, claiming he was only at the scene of the murder because he had been having an affair with Schuyler. He calls the police to say that he's bringing Reavis in and makes Reavis drive at gunpoint. He finds Reavis with $10,000 in his possession and believes that Reavis was paid to kill Olivia. Harper tracks down the chauffeur, Pat Reavis. She is working behind her husband's back trying to find an account book containing information of his illicit business dealings, which he is desperate to recover and would kill her over if he knew she had a hand in its disappearance. He does not have any useful information for her and is released he later finds out she is Mavis Kilbourne, the wife of the oil magnate. While searching for the chauffeur, Harper is abducted again, this time by hoods working for a mysterious woman. On Harper's return, he learns that the dead body of Olivia Devereaux has just been found and the police's prime suspect is the ex-chauffeur. Harper is noncommittal towards Kilbourne, and the hoods return him to his car. Harper is abducted by two hoods working for the oil magnate J.Hugh Kilbourne, who thinks Harper might be useful in his efforts to get ownership of some of Olivia Devereaux's oil-rich properties, which she is content to maintain as bird sanctuaries. Broussard accepts Harper's explanation, but tells him he will be following what Harper does, as he has a personal interest in the Devereaux family. Their meeting in the motel room brings Harper to the attention of police chief Broussard and the disagreeable Lieutenant Franks. He sends her away, but later he discovers that the teenager is Iris Devereaux's daughter, Schuyler. The husband does not care, but his mother, Olivia Devereaux, is the family matriarch and runs the family estate with an unforgiving iron grip.Įven before his investigation begins, Harper is propositioned in his motel room by a teenaged girl. She believes the family's ex-chauffeur is the person who is blackmailing her with the knowledge that she has cheated on her husband. Los Angeles-based private investigator Lew Harper flies to Louisiana to do a job for his former lover, Iris Devereaux. The setting is shifted from California to Louisiana. The film stars Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, and Anthony Franciosa, and is a loose sequel to Harper. The Drowning Pool is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Stuart Rosenberg, and based upon Ross Macdonald's novel of the same name.
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