No Way to Treat a Lady

No Way to Treat a Lady

1968 · 108 min · EN · NR · 6.8 (47 votes)
Dir. Jack Smight · Starring Rod Steiger, Lee Remick, George Segal, Eileen Heckart, Murray Hamilton, Michael Dunn · Music Stanley Myers

...or is it?

ComedyThriller

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.

VIBE

A gritty, darkly comedic cat-and-mouse thriller set against the backdrop of 1960s New York. It's a tense, unsettling ride with a unique blend of psychological suspense and character study, exploring obsession and fractured identities.

darkly comedictenseunsettlinggrittysteadyneo-noirgritty urban thrillercharacter-drivenidentityobsessionurban decaymotherhood
new york citybased on novel or bookdetectiveserial killercat and mousedisguisestranglerwignypdphone calljewish mother
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