The Drowning Pool isn’t as strong of a movie compared to Harper but works mainly for Paul Newman once again and there was at least one fun set piece for the titled pool as the villain attempts to kill Harper.
The Drowning Pool
— Warner Archive Collection —
(1975)
Genre(s): Drama, Crime
Warner Archive | PG – 108 min. – $21.99 | February 27, 2018
Date Published: 03/10/2018 | Author: The Movieman
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PLOT SYNOPSIS |
| Private eye Lew Harper (PAUL NEWMAN) is in deep this time when he’s hired by an old flame (JOANNE WOODWARD) to unravel a seemingly routine blackmail case. He’s so far down, he may never come up for air. |
SPECIAL FEATURES – 1.5/5 |
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There’s a Harper Days Are Here vintage featurette and the Theatrical Trailer. |
VIDEO – 4.25/5, AUDIO – 4.0/5 |
| Warner Archive Collection releases The Drowning Pool onto Blu-ray where it’s presented with a 2.40 widescreen aspect ratio and given a new 1080p high-definition transfer. Like its predecessor, Harper, this looks great. Detail throughout is fairly sharp and there was some good colors bursts while the black levels were deep but still showing what’s in the shot.
The DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono track which outputs clear dialogue and some modest depth for the suspense-thriller sequences and there it sounded clean, free of pops and hisses. |
OVERALL – 3.0/5 |
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Overall, The Drowning Pool isn’t as strong of a movie compared to Harper but works mainly for Paul Newman once again and there was at least one fun set piece for the titled pool as the villain attempts to kill Harper. The Blu-ray release from the Warner Archive Collection offers good video/audio transfers and a throwaway vintage featurette. |
Check out some more 1080p screen caps by going to page 2. Please note, these do contain spoilers.