The Drowning Pool

1975 109 min Thriller, Mystery

Harper is brought to Louisiana to investigate an attempted blackmail scheme. He soon finds out that it involves an old flame of his and her daughter. He eventually finds himself caught in a power struggle between the matriarch of the family and a greedy oil baron, who wants their property. Poor Harper! Things are not as straight-forward as they initially appeared.

budget $2,700,000 earnings $2,600,000 return 1.0x

director Stuart Rosenberg

writers Walter Hill, Tracy Keenan Wynn, Lorenzo Semple Jr.