No Way to Treat a Lady
...or is it?
1968 | 108m | English
Popularity: 0.7 (history)
| Director: | Jack Smight |
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| Writer: | William Goldman, John Gay |
| Staring: |
| Christopher Gill is a psychotic killer who uses various disguises to trick and strangle his victims. Moe Brummel is a single and harassed New York City police detective who starts to get phone calls from the strangler and builds a strange alliance as a result. Kate Palmer is a swinging, hip tour guide who witnesses the strangler leaving her dead neighbor's apartment and sets her sights on the detective. Moe's live-in mother wishes her son would be a successful Jewish doctor like his big brother. | |
| Release Date: | Mar 20, 1968 |
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| Director: | Jack Smight |
| Writer: | William Goldman, John Gay |
| Genres: | Comedy, Thriller |
| Keywords | new york city, detective, based on novel or book, serial killer, cat and mouse, disguise, strangler, wig, nypd, phone call, jewish mother |
| Production Companies | Paramount Pictures |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $3,100,000
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 Entered: Apr 15, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Rod Steiger | Christopher Gill |
| Lee Remick | Kate Palmer |
| George Segal | Morris Brummel |
| Eileen Heckart | Mrs. Brummel |
| Murray Hamilton | Inspector Haines |
| Michael Dunn | Mr. Kupperman |
| Martine Bartlett | Alma Mulloy |
| Barbara Baxley | Belle Poppie |
| Irene Dailey | Mrs. Fitts |
| Doris Roberts | Sylvia Poppie |
| Ruth White | Mrs. Himmel |
| David Doyle | Lieutenant Dawson |
| Val Bisoglio | Detective Monaghan |
| Zvee Scooler | Old Man |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Jack Smight | Director |
| William Goldman | Novel |
| John Gay | Screenplay |
| Stanley Myers | Original Music Composer |
| Jack Priestley | Director of Photography |
| Archie Marshek | Editor |
| George Jenkins | Set Decoration, Art Direction |
| Andrew Belling | Music |
| Charles Grenzbach | Sound Recordist |
| William Nallan | Sound Recordist |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Sol C. Siegel | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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Rod Steiger's performance as a twisted serial strangler is the best thing about this tongue-in-cheek cat and mouse thriller from director Jack Smight. The laughs center mostly around detective Morris Brummel (George Segal) and his domineering mother (Eileen Heckart). Lee Remick is there mostly for s ... omething nice to look at, but see this for Steiger!
Jun 23, 2021