Harper (1966) / The Drowning Pool (1975) coming from WAC

[CinemaScope]

I've never seen The Drowning Pool, so I'm not that interested in it, but Harper, wow. A big favourite, I saw it at the cinema all those years ago, great cast, great script & dialogue & a great story. It has that sixties fizazz.

[octagon]

Originally Posted by CinemaScope

I've never seen The Drowning Pool, so I'm not that interested in it, but Harper, wow. A big favourite, I saw it at the cinema all those years ago, great cast, great script & dialogue & a great story. It has that sixties fizazz.

You might want to use The Drowning Pool to pad out a 4/$44 order sometime down the road. It's been a while since I've seen TDP and while I wouldn't say it's quite as good as Harper, it's awfully good and features all the things you like about Harper.

[Monterey Jack]

Originally Posted by octagon

You might want to use The Drowning Pool to pad out a 4/$44 order sometime down the road. It's been a while since I've seen TDP and while I wouldn't say it's quite as good as Harper, it's awfully good and features all the things you like about Harper.

Plus, it has a very sexy and young Melanie Griffith.

[ArnoldLayne56]

Originally Posted by Monterey Jack

Plus, it has a very sexy and young Melanie Griffith.

Don't miss her in Night Moves, also from WAC.

[The Great Owl]

Harper and The Drowning Pool are both $17.71 on Amazon this morning, so I pulled the trigger.

[Brad1963]

My copies of both shipped today from Best Buy.com.

[albert_m2]

I saw The Drowning Pool for the first time on TCM recently. I was looking forward to it, but wow, just meh.

[Jorvic]

Originally Posted by albert_m2

I saw The Drowning Pool for the first time on TCM recently. I was looking forward to it, but wow, just meh.

Don't think anyone would call it a great film. There's enough to enjoy in it though. The Blu-ray I have gives a very clear picture.

[RCRochester]

Originally Posted by octagon

You might want to use The Drowning Pool to pad out a 4/$44 order sometime down the road. It's been a while since I've seen TDP and while I wouldn't say it's quite as good as Harper, it's awfully good and features all the things you like about Harper.

You can't have one and not the other!

I will point out though that Harper is very much a 60s movie in look and style. Drowning Pool is very much a 70s movie and has a drab and much more realistic feel to it. So although Drowning Pool is a sequel to Harper, it also feels like it's part of a different universe at times too. Newman is true to the character in both films, though, very sardonic and irreverent.

[octagon]

Originally Posted by RCRochester

You can't have one and not the other!

I will point out though that Harper is very much a 60s movie in look and style. Drowning Pool is very much a 70s movie and has a drab and much more realistic feel to it. So although Drowning Pool is a sequel to Harper, it also feels like it's part of a different universe at times too. Newman is true to the character in both films, though, very sardonic and irreverent.

Yeah, it's even hard to think of one without the other coming to mind.

[Fred Sliman]

Major fan of both of these and couldn’t be happier to see their release from WAC, who have been doing stunning work with films from my favorite era. I saw The Drowning Pool the day it opened here in Baton Rouge; I seem to remember South Louisiana getting it quickly presumably due to its location shooting throughout the area. Having just seen Murray Hamilton in Jaws in its premiere week before, I enjoyed his colorful turn here.

As the previous poster mentions, both are very much of their time. Perhaps due to my unbridled love for 70s cinema, I have found Drowning to get better over the years as I have screened both often. It’s a great double feature, with the swinging atmosphere and smartass tone of much of the first evolving to something a bit more melancholy and seasoned in the second.

Both are stacked with great casts to the smallest roles and fine technical work. I’m particularly excited to see the blu upgrade benefit some of the darker photography in Drowning. I can’t wait to own them and heartily recommend them as a pair.