Harper (1966)
Harper takes a case - and the payoff is murder.
Genre : Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Runtime : 2H 1M
Director : Jack Smight
Writer : William Goldman
Synopsis
Harper is a cynical private eye in the best tradition of Bogart. He even has Bogie's Baby hiring him to find her missing husband, getting involved along the way with an assortment of unsavory characters and an illegal-alien smuggling ring.
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