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.
Paul Newman
as Lew Harper
Lauren Bacall
as Elaine Sampson
Julie Harris
as Betty Fraley
Arthur Hill
as Albert Graves
Janet Leigh
as Susan Harper
Pamela Tiffin
as Miranda Sampson
Robert Wagner
as Allan Taggert
Robert Webber
as Dwight Troy
Shelley Winters
as Fay Estabrook
Harold Gould
as Sheriff Spanner
Roy Jenson
as Puddler
Strother Martin
as Claude