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Lady in Cement: Directed by Gordon Douglas. With Frank Sinatra, Raquel Welch, Richard Conte, Martin Gabel. During an ocean dive, Miami gumshoe Tony Rome (Frank Sinatra) finds a woman's body with her feet encased in a concrete block and sets out to solve the murder case.
- (2.8K)
- Comedy, Crime, Drama
- Gordon Douglas
- 1968-12-20
Lady in Cement. Lady in Cement is a 1968 American neo-noir [2] mystery crime comedy thriller film directed by Gordon Douglas, based on the 1961 novel The Lady in Cement by Marvin H. Albert. The film stars Frank Sinatra, Raquel Welch, Dan Blocker, Richard Conte, Martin Gabel, Lainie Kazan, and Pat Henry . A sequel to the 1967 film Tony Rome ...
During an ocean dive, Miami gumshoe Tony Rome (Frank Sinatra) finds a woman's body with her feet encased in a concrete block and sets out to solve the murder...
- 94 min
- 2.7K
- Hollywood Classic Movies
Here’s something that immediately caught our eye—a rare film still of Christine Todd as the titular corpse from 1968’s Lady in Cement.Todd’s appearance is during the film’s first few minutes, as Sinatra’s detective character Tony Rome is scuba diving off the coast of Florida and finds her anchored in a block of cement.
The Lady in Cement is a lot more nudge-nudge-wink-wink than Tony Rome. Tony Rome had it's moments, to be sure, but this one is a lot looser and freer with the jokes. For example, Dan Blocker who was Big Hoss on Bonanza is a bad guy named Gronsky. There is a scene where Rome walks into the room where Gronsky is watching TV and you hear the ...
- (868)
- Arcola Pictures, 20th Century Fox
- Gordon Douglas
Lady in Cement. It's clear enough that Frank Sinatra has honorable intentions. He wants to make good cop and private-eye movies, the kind Bogart specialized in, with terse dialog and good action sequences and the hero played as a weary cynic with an anti-establishment bias. The trouble in "Lady in Cement," and to a lesser degree in "The ...
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While diving for sunken treasure off the Miami coast, private investigator Tony Rome discovers the nude corpse of a blonde whose feet have been encased in cement. Following an autopsy, which reveals that the woman was murdered with a knife, a huge ex-convict, Gronsky, hires Tony to find out if the blonde is his missing girl friend, go-go dancer ...
