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Name: The Drowning Pool
Released: 1975-7-1
Cast: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Tony Franciosa, Murray Hamilton, Gail Strickland

The Drowning Pool

PG
1h 48m
1975

53%

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Academy Award winners Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward star in this thriller about a big-city private detective who travels to the Deep South to help a former girlfriend ... only to be caught in The Drowning Pool. Private eye Lew Harper's (Newman) first surprise comes when he learns the identity of the woman who has hired him--Iris Devereaux (Woodward). And every subsequent twist leads Harper deeper into a web of lies, blackmail and murder that may cost him his very life.

Director:

Stuart Rosenberg

Producer:

Lawrence Turnan, David Foster

Writer:

Tracy Keenan Wynn, Lorenzo Semple Jr., Walter Hill

Cast:

Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Tony Franciosa, Murray Hamilton, Gail Strickland, Melanie Griffith, Linda Haynes, Richard Jaeckel, Paul Koslo, Andy Robinson, Coral Browne, Richard Derr

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

53%

Reviews

Film Frenzy

Matt Brunson

The Drowning Pool lacks the freshness of its 1966 predecessor, though Newman can still trade quips with the best of them.

August 31, 2021

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Los Angeles Free Press

Jacoba Atlas

It's not so much that the plot doesn't make sense - most good detective films don't "make sense" - but that you couldn't care less what happens to the people.

Paul Newman undergoes all kinds of "games" in which performs with enviable ease, elegance and sarcasm. [Full Review in Spanish]

September 4, 2019

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Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

Dennis Schwartz

It has a field day recycling private eye cliches while down in the bayou.

Perhaps the saddest thing about The Drowning Pool is that the incompetence-cum-artiness of Stuart Rosenberg has subverted the talent of the usually redoubtable Gordon Willis.

June 25, 2017

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