No Way to Treat a Lady (1968)

User Rating:

7.2/10   

Director:

Jack Smight

Writers:

John Gay (writer)
William Goldman (novel)

Release Date:

20 March 1968 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Thriller

Plot:

A crafty serial killer plays a game of cat-and-mouse with a harried police detective trying to track him down.

Plot Keywords:

Serial Killer | Homosexual | Black Comedy | Jewish Cop | Based On Novel

Awards:

Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 1 win

Cast

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
Val Bisoglio	...	Detective Monaghan
David Doyle	...	Lieutenant Dawson
Kim August	...	Sadie

Runtime:

108 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | USA:Unrated

Filming Locations:

New York City, New York, USA

Company:

Sol C. Siegel Productions

Trivia:

One of the names of actors on poster outside theater is William Henry Pratt - real name of Boris Karloff.

Goofs:

Continuity: The first victim is identified both in a line of dialogue and in the end credits as "Alma Mulloy." However, when the killer is reading about the murder in the paper, the news article lists her name as "Alice Mulloy."

Quotes:

Mrs. Brummel: So where you going to take her?
Morris Brummel: Who?
Mrs. Brummel: Kate Palmer.
Morris Brummel: Nowhere.
Mrs. Brummel: Nowhere? That's a place, nowhere?
Morris Brummel: We're going to have dinner at her place.
Mrs. Brummel: You mean her own apartment?
Morris Brummel: That's right.
Mrs. Brummel: The two of you, alone?
Morris Brummel: Well, we were going to invite the strangler, but he couldn't make it.
[...]

Soundtrack:

A QUIET PLACE

Steiger gives a bravura performance as a serial killer

Coming hot off the heels of his Oscar winning role in 1967's "In the Heat of the Night" Steiger gives an acting tour-de-force in this tale of a demented serial killer tormenting a police officer. Steiger pulls out all the plugs as he slips into the persona of a Catholic priest, German plumber, simpering hair stylist...and all with great flare and comic over tones. Segal and Remick provide the love interest in a rather kooky way, and it all makes for great fun, in a serial killer movie!..Gotta see it!