Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Kailansorac Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

Joanna Mccarty Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

dougdoepke An LA gumshoe is charmed by an old flame into traveling to New Orleans to find out who's blackmailing her. There he enters an expanding web of intrigue. Over the years, I've learned to beware of PI movies featuring celebrity stars. That's because the storyline's probably padded to justify the star's lengthy screen time. After all big bucks and reputations are at stake. I guess my PI preferences are for tight productions where a tight plot is foremost, basically those B-movies from the 40's and 50's.Perhaps he was disinterested in the sloppy script, but Newman underplays throughout. As a result, attention moves from him to the many colorful supporting players. At least that way, he gets the required screen time but without dominating the scenes themselves. The movie's highlight, of course, is the white-knuckle drowning pool. How the heck are the trapped Harper and Mavis (Strickland) going to escape the sealed room as the water surrounding them gets higher and higher and the ceiling closer and closer. Nothing they try seems to work. Like the rest of the film, the predicament's resolution again shows that Harper's no miracle man. Also on the plus side, there's plenty of sexy skin and come-on's for the guys, even including a shirtless Newman for the gals.However, the plot's almost incomprehensible, meandering around in 10 different directions to fill out the 2-hour runtime. Likely that provided parts for the large supporting cast of this A- production. Maybe the many plot threads tie up in the end, but after all the convolutions, who cares. It's then that I appreciated the virtues of those old B-movie screenplays.All in all, the movie's mainly for Newman fans, though it appears he came to dislike the results that would also be the last Harper entry (IMDB).

screenman Paul Newman takes on the gumshoe role once more in this eminently watchable outing. True to style, the plot becomes increasingly convoluted, with the odd body turning-up here and there. Newman does that easy, laconic Newman thing and the director seems to almost pace the movie around his style. Lots of other fine actors give convincing turns, including not-so-often-seen Tony Franciosa (a frequent face in TV's 'The Name Of The Game'), who seems to be having a little trouble with his good-'ol-boy accent. Then there's a pert and very youthful Melanie Griffiths, playing the role of a spoilt but vixenish adolescent temptress. Everyone has their own agenda. Everybody is keeping secrets. Nobody is quite what they appear.There's a superficial plot about land title and oil exploitation. There's a little book full of very revealing details about civic and industrial corruption. And then there's some deep-seated unresolved family issues that could themselves bubble-up into murder. Everything just juggles along as the movie unfolds. There's a lot more psychological manipulation than on-screen cruelty and violence, which is how I like my movies.It's not exactly a classic, but highly recommended even so.

barney_holmes Like a lot of the films that I enjoy, The Drowning Pool can be watched on two levels. It's a Bogart'ish, Nior'ish mystery thriller with only a few lines that come off as maybe trying to be too clever. But that is well balanced out by some class acting and story development along with some unusual sleuthing techniques that we see from the Newman character. The characters and morals, the nastiness and the kindness have an authentic stamp of reality about them that compares well with the sentimental sugariness and lack of reality of so many "violent" modern action/thriller films. That in itself is a reason for watching the film; just for the stark contrast with so many creative works today that claim to show "realism".On another level there is much social commentary going on here. The stifling psychological atmosphere lives up well to the title of this piece as we watch people tear themselves and their relationships apart; driven on, of course, by those who have a vested interest in seeing them fail.There is a key scene towards the end of the film that pulls together all the strings at work on this second level.Well worth it if you're prepared to pay attention.

Petri Pelkonen Private detective Lew Harper investigates a blackmail plot in Louisiana bayou country.He gets the assignment from his old flame Iris.The Drowning Pool (1975) is a sequel to Harper (1966), which I haven't seen yet.This film is directed by Stuarts Rosenberg and it's based on Ross Macdonald's novel.Tracy Keenan Wynn wrote the script.Paul Newman is very cool as Lew Harper.Joanne Woodward, who was the wife of Newman for 50 years plays Iris Devereaux.The young Melanie Griffith is her daughter Schuyler.The climax scene is really something.Harper and Kilbourne's wife Mavis are locked in a hydrotherapy room and the water starts rising to the ceiling.That and other sticky situations you can find from The Drowning Pool.