Harper

TCM's Eddie Muller introduces Harper, 1966.

TCM's Dave Karger introduces Harper, 1966.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Harper, 1966.

TCM's Dave Karger introduces Harper, 1966.

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.

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.

A broken-down private eye (Paul Newman) sets out to find a rich woman's missing husband in Harper (1966).

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.

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.