Harper

“Harper takes a case - and the payoff is murder.”

Lew Harper (Paul Newman) is a private investigator with a rumpled manner and a marriage that has already come apart. Elaine Sampson (Lauren Bacall) hires him to find her husband, a missing multimillionaire, and the search takes Harper through Jack Smight's Los Angeles and into a smuggling ring that moves illegal workers. A case that began with a wife's worry has people who do not want him asking questions, and he keeps asking.