No Way to Treat a Lady

Release Date: 1968-03-20

Overview: 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.

Rating: 6.638 / 10

Cast

Rod Steiger

as Christopher Gill

Lee Remick

as Kate Palmer

George Segal

as Morris Brummel

Eileen Heckart

as Mrs. Brummel

Murray Hamilton

as Inspector Haines

Crew

Jack Smight - Director
John Gay - Screenplay
William Goldman - Novel
Charles Grenzbach - Sound Recordist
William Nallan - Sound Recordist

Reviews

Nutshell:

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 ...