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.
Harper is a 1966 American mystery thriller film starring Paul Newman, with Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris, Arthur Hill, Janet Leigh, Pamela Tiffin, Robert Wagner and Shelley Winters in support. Directed by Jack Smight from a screenplay by William Goldman, the picture is based on the 1949 novel The Moving Target by Ross Macdonald. Newman plays private investigator Lew Harper, based on the protagonist of Macdonald's series of detective stories.