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Non si maltrattano così le signore ( No Way to Treat a Lady) è un film del 1968 diretto da Jack Smight . Indice. 1 Trama. 2 Produzione. 3 Distribuzione. 4 Critica. 5 Note. 6 Collegamenti esterni. Trama.
No Way to Treat a Lady: Directed by Jack Smight. With Rod Steiger, Lee Remick, George Segal, Eileen Heckart. A crafty serial killer plays a game of cat-and-mouse with a harried police detective trying to track him down.
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- Jack Smight
- 1968-03-20
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Christopher Gill is a serial killer fixated on his late mother, a noted stage actress. Gill preys on older women. A Broadway theatre owner and director, he adopts various disguises in order to put his victims at ease and avoid identification, impersonating characters such as an Irish priest, a policeman, plumber, a flamboyant gay hairdresser, and a...
Screenplay
Goldman wrote the original novel while experiencing writer's block, when writing Boys and Girls Together (published in 1964). He was inspired by an article about the Boston Stranglerwhich suggested there might be two stranglers operating, and Goldman wondered what would happen if that were the case and they got jealous of each other.
Development
In October 1966 it was announced that Sol C. Siegel had signed a three-picture deal with Paramount Pictures, of which the first was to be an adaptation of No Way to Treat a Lady. In December Siegel hired John Gay to adapt the novel into a screenplay. (Jack Smight later said Goldman refused to do the screen adaptation claiming that a novelist should never adapt his or her work for the screen.) In March 1967, Jack Smight signed to direct. By May, Rod Steiger was playing the leadand George Segal...
Filming
Filming started in June and mostly took place in Brooklyn Heights, New York. The original plan was to shoot three weeks in New York and do all interiors at Paramount's studio but in the end Smight and Siegel decided to shoot the entire film in New York. "It's Steiger's film," said Segal. "He runs around doing all sorts of different roles and I just stop by and watch him... It's a big, comfortable Hollywood production and I have banker's hours." Eileen Heckart filmed her scenes during the day...
Box office
No Way to Treat a Ladypremiered on March 20, 1968, and grossed $3.1 million at the U.S. box office.
Critical response
Wanda Hale of the New York Daily News praised the film for Steiger's "tour-de-force performance" and its blending of humor and the macabre. The People critic Ernest Betts likened the film to the works of Alfred Hitchcock, praising Steiger's performance and summarizing: "The film has a macabre humor which just takes the edge off the horror and is sometimes hilarious." Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote of the film: "Beneath all the outrageous make-up, hairpieces, disguises and belly lau...
Home media
Paramount Home Entertainment released the film on DVD on September 3, 2002. Under license from Paramount, Scream Factory released the film on Blu-rayfor the first time on December 21, 2021.
In 1987, Douglas J. Cohen adapted the film into a musical comedy, which was revived Off-Broadway by the York Theatre Company in 1996. That production was nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Awardfor Best Musical Revival.
"No Way to Treat a Lady". Time. March 29, 1968. Archived from the original on October 23, 2012. Retrieved March 15, 2008.
No Way to Treat a Lady at IMDbNo Way to Treat a Lady at the TCM Movie DatabaseNo Way to Treat a Lady at AllMovieNo Way to Treat a Lady at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films18 mar 2024 · No Way to Treat a Lady is a 1968 American psychological thriller film with elements of black comedy, directed by Jack Smight, and starring Rod Steiger, Lee Remick, George Segal, and Eileen Heckart. Adapted by John Gay from William Goldman's 1964 novel of the same name, it follows a serial killer in New York City who impersonates ...
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15 ott 2014 · No Way to Treat a Lady (1968) - Movie. movieclipsFILMN. 8 videos 13,355 views Last updated on Oct 15, 2014. New York detective Moe Brummell (George Segal) is assigned to track down a...
Psychopathic serial killer Christopher Gill (Rod Steiger) is obsessed with his late mother, and he targets victims who remind him of her. He dons various disguises to gain his victims' trust and ...
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YouTube Movies & TV. 181M subscribers. Subscribed. 86. Suspense-master Willam Golman (Marathon Man) wrote the novel from which this bizarre black comedy was adapted. It's the extraordinary...
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