No Way to Treat a Lady
Time Out says
A scathingly funny black comedy satirising movie psychopathology. Steiger is brilliant as a sort of Boston strangler, son of a great actress who has left her boy with a mother fixation, a taste for impersonation, and a thirst for applause. Genuinely funny as he sets out to satisfy all three urges through murder, meanwhile making a special telephone confidant out of a reluctant cop (Segal, also brilliant) with Jewish momma problems of his own. Smight directs uncertainly, especially in some statutory love scenes, but the script (based on William Goldman's novel) is unstoppably witty. Difficult to resist a film in which a dwarf hopefully confesses to the killings, only to be told that eye-witness accounts point to a taller killer. 'See what I mean?' he cries, 'I'm a master of disguises!'
Details
Release details
Duration:
108 mins
Cast and crew
Director:
Jack Smight
Screenwriter:
John Gay
Cast:
Rod Steiger
Lee Remick
George Segal
Eileen Heckart
Murray Hamilton
Michael Dunn
Barbara Baxley
Ruth White
David Doyle
Lee Remick
George Segal
Eileen Heckart
Murray Hamilton
Michael Dunn
Barbara Baxley
Ruth White
David Doyle