The Drowning Pool

“Harper days are here again...”

A blackmail letter reaches Louisiana, and it is enough to bring private investigator Lew Harper (Paul Newman) down from the city to find who sent it. The trouble sits close to home: Iris Devereaux (Joanne Woodward), an old flame of his, and her daughter. Stuart Rosenberg has Harper work through a family with an oil baron circling its land, and the longer he asks questions, the more it costs him to keep asking.