No Way to Treat a Lady (1968)

Best movie of this year hands down!

Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

My enjoyment of Jack Smight's No Way to Treat a Lady goes back to watching it with my dad 35+ years ago on ABC. In some ways it was the most grown up movie I had seen, yet it had a gentle, TVish quality that made the gamier aspects more palatable (and ABC trimmed some of Rod Steiger's hairdresser bit a bit).What I remember is enjoying George Segal's understated and Rod Steiger's over-the-top performances as, respectively, a murder cop on the trail of a serial killer. What I really enjoyed--along with my dad--was Lee Remick. To this day, I think Remick was proof that God is an artist. Even in bad parts, she was breathtakingly lovely, and had a wonderful chemistry between her two parts, the vulnerable girl and the WASPish woman.I needn't bore you with the plot--just read some of the other reviews. What I want you to do is get signed up with TCM or Netflix and watch this funny and suspenseful little movie. Enjoy the performances. Revel in the location photography.And marvel at Remick, in a backless dress, hung over from a party, and looking better than anyone should with a hangover!

Rod Steiger was sensational in this 1968 film. His ability to disguise himself and play so many different parts as an insane killer was just fabulous to watch.Yes, the film was definitely an eerie one but you never know what's coming next.Eileen Heckart was just fabulous as the Jewish mother of her son-the police officer, played so well by George Segal.You just wonder when Heckart, Segal and girlfriend, Lee Remick, will be drawn into the web of this serial killer who seems to strike without reason.Who can ever forget his first venture into killing disguised as a priest?Rod Steiger had a definite field day with this film. Dealing with the macabre, it was truly a memorable film.

The opening scene of this movie has a priest whistling to himself as he walks. Camera point of view shot from above as he walks under a bridge. Without editing, the camera turns and the priest is already on the bridge, walking towards the camera! This uneasy scene sets the audience up for the rest of the film. This man is a killer. A Mother obsessed killer. Rod Steiger enthralls the audience in a series of superb disguises intended to fool his victims into trusting him. George Segal plays the cop on his trail, and, in scenes reminiscent to "Rollercoaster",also a Segal movie,the lunatic calls him up and gloats about his accomplishments. A classic slice of dark, dark comedy.

This is an amazing movie that is a dark comedy and a thriller at the same time. This was directed by Jack Smight and stars Rod Steiger, Lee Remick and George Segal. Segal is a Jewish detective who still lives with his mother and Steiger is a serial killer who had some problems with his mother and now goes around killing middle aged woman and leaving lipstick on their forehead. Remick is a witness who briefly saw Steiger but didn't get a good look and Segal and Remick begin dating. Steiger begins to call Segal and talk to him and also at his home and the captain tries to take Segal off the case. It's a really great movie that has some very funny scenes.