No Way to Treat a Lady

Name: No Way to Treat a Lady
Director: Jack Smight
Released: 1968
Duration: 108 min
Rating: 7
Cast: Rod Steiger, Lee Remick, George Segal, Eileen Heckart, Murray Hamilton

1968 · 108 MIN · IMDB 7.0 · 2,672 VOTES · DIR. Jack Smight

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.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,426 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:39 - Good afternoon, Father. - Top of the mornin' to you.

00:04:27 - You don't know the guilt. - Oh, my dear, sweet lady.

00:10:56 - Oh, boy. - Hospital this time.

00:15:42 Oh, yeah, okay.

00:19:50 It'll be a miracle if plumbing in this house ever works, huh?

00:24:06 Now you're interested, huh? Maybe now, I should hang up on you.

00:28:22 We got... We got...

00:32:59 - I'm sorry. - That's okay. it's a funny name.

00:36:31 - All right, Mother. - Just sit down there, darling.

00:39:39 Smith. Dorian Smith. And that's right, sweetheart.

00:43:00 I'm very sorry if I'm disturbing you at home.

00:46:22 What for?

00:51:47 not one word more.

00:55:21 - So where are you gonna take her? - Who?

00:59:32 L give UP-

01:03:52 - She claimed she saw the strangler. - Are you sure she's not Pearl Menzel?

01:08:49 The figures in the painting...

01:14:01 - The strangler? - Yeah. I killed every one of them.

01:18:44 - I'm listening. What can I say? - Say you believe me. Say it.

01:22:42 - Desperately? Madly? - Desperately, madly.

01:26:11 Oh, thank you, Detective.

01:30:19 Yes, the meat sauce...

01:38:14 The ones we've been talking about on the telephone.

555:33:01 We're checking it out now, Moe.

Cast & Characters

Rod Steiger Christopher Gill Lee Remick Kate Palmer George Segal Morris Brummel Eileen Heckart Mrs. Brummel Murray Hamilton Inspector Haines Michael Dunn Mr. Kupperman Martine Bartlett Alma Mulloy Barbara Baxley Belle Poppie Irene Dailey Mrs. Fitts Doris Roberts Sylvia Poppie

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,426

Dialogue density13.2 lines / min

First line00:00:39

Final line555:33:01

Production Record

DirectorJack Smight

LanguageEnglish

Revenue$3,100,000

IMDb votes2,672