No Way to Treat a Lady (Ws Sub)

Starring:Rod Steiger, Lee Remick, George Segal, Eileen Heckart, Murray Hamilton, Michael Dunn, Martine Bartlett, Barbara Baxley, Irene Dailey, Doris Roberts, Ruth White (II), Val Bisoglio, David Doyle, Kim August, Don Blair, Louis Basile, R. Bernard, Burr Smidt, Sam Coppola (II), Veronica Ericson
Director: Jack Smight
Studio: Paramount
Product Type: DVD

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Interesting suspense movie
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No Way to Treat a Lady (Ws Sub)
Starring: Rod Steiger , Lee Remick , George Segal , Eileen Heckart , and Murray Hamilton
Director: Jack Smight
Manufacturer: Paramount
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B000069I08
Release Date: 2002-09-03

Customer Reviews:

Interesting suspense movie.......2007-05-30

This movie seems to have gone un-noticed by many people, but we think it is a worthy, though a little old fashioned, suspenseful entertainment. Lee Remick is so lovely, and Rod Steiger shows off his love of the stage. We give it 4 thumbs up.

No Way to Treat a Lady.......2006-07-09

I hadn't seen this film in many years, but it was one of my favorites and I'm glad to be able to add it to my collection. Rod Steiger was always best as a villan and he really shines in this one. Lee Remick is also terrific as a lady who fall for a jewish cop who's investigating a murder.

Best Way to Treat a DVD.......2004-08-30

No Way To Treat A Lady has all the right things that you look for in a quality DVD, Sharp Vivid Color Widescreen 16:9 and Dolby Digital Full Cleen Sound. Unlike many films that are shown repeatedly on TV/Cable, NO Way TO Treat A Lady, has never had that problem. Be sure to ad this to your DVD collection or to put it another way, "What Are You Waiting For?"

No Way to Treat a Leading Lady.......2004-05-28

A very perceptive bio-writer in one of the British film reference books (I forget which) noted that Lee Remick was basically quite badly used by Hollywood and that after such early career successes as ANATOMY OF A MURDER and DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES, she somehow wound up being relegated to "girlfriend" roles in mid-60s comedies (e.g. this one and other fluffier fare like THE WHEELER DEALERS) or was cast as the "wife" (THE DETECTIVE--well, OK, it's a wife role with a twist--she's a nymphomaniac--BUT it was basically a secondary role nonetheless).

It was no wonder that by the 70s, she basically became a TV actress. At least that medium offered her meatier and,yes, starring roles. For years, she seemed locked in a rivalry with Liz Montgomery for the title of Queen of the TV Movies. And by that point, that probably wasn't such a bad niche to find yourself in.

But in 1967, you could say that Remick was floundering a bit. NO WAY TO TREAT A LADY is one of those 60s films that tries very hard to be sophisticated but never quite pulls it off. The laughs are pretty paltry in this would-be black comedy. The Jewish mother jokes are there, the slightly naughty gay jokes are there, the Catholic jokes are there. They seem pretty dated and, well, almost quaint now.

But Rod Steiger DOES get a chance to chew the scenery with the best of them. He's the real reason to watch this movie, and his role as the homicidal ham-of-a-thousand-faces is one that rightly revels in. Steiger pulls more accents in this one flick than Meryl has managed in her entire career. It's over-the-top fun and makes you wish that Hollywood has treated him a little better too.

The film could have been better with just a little more edge. Sharper writing and directing would have made a huge difference. As a period piece, NO WAY TO TREAT A LADY is well worth watching. As a vehicle for Steiger, it pretty much works. But this is a movie that seems to think having a character named "Moe" Brummel is the height of sophistication. It's not.

Seriously overlooked.......2004-04-23

Nowadays, when it seems that a successful film has to be either a big holiday or summer special-effects blockbuster, or a cheap independent circuit success, it makes one long for the days when good films with good stories were made for modest budgets and provided a decent piece of entertainment without overloading the senses. This dying breed of the movies is still around, however, and although often under appreciated, should be sought out. One case in point is No Way to Treat a Lady, a black comedy that combines a crime drama with the often humorous relationships men have with their mothers.

In spite of the film being a thriller, we know from the beginning who the bad guy is. It's Rod Steiger, who gets to really stretch and ham it up as a theater manager/serial killer who murders each of his victims in some outlandish disguise to win their trust. George Segal is the cop who must crack the case and, at the same time, fend off his wonderfully annoying mother, Eileen Heckart (whose running gag line, "Who ever heard of a Jewish cop?" gets repeated over and over again throughout). Steiger's character is one of those vain killers who checks the newspaper for reports of his exploits and who takes to calling Segal when the facts are reported wrong or when he wants to taunt the authorities. Segal is rather bland, although it's not really his fault since the role doesn't give him much to do other than to react to the other characters, particularly his mother, Steiger, and Lee Remick, as his love interest and would-be victim of the murderer. Steiger goes way, way over the top, but it works because the film has set him up to be not only flamboyant, but overreactive to mother issues of his own. His various disguises get odder and odder as the film moves along, and when it shifts from comedy into resolution of the crime mode, his character becomes that much more menacing, not because he's funny but because we learn, as Segal puts the pieces together, that he is honestly and truly deranged.

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Former deputy secretary of state Strobe Talbott, now president of the Brookings Institute, discusses the NATO summit in Prague. Then, an interview with author and political satirist Christopher Buckley about his latest novel, No Way to Treat a First Lady. Finally, comedian Bill Maher, former host of the ABC television show, Politically Incorrect, talks about his new book, When You Ride Alone, You Ride with Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism.

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