cult film freak: frank sinatra

Written by James M. Tate / 12/14/2024 / No comments / action , chris robinson , dan blocker , exploitation , frank sinatra , gumshoe , jazz-score , lainie kazan , mystery , neo noir , raquel welch , richard conte , shark , sixties , tony rome

FRANK SINATRA RETURNING AS TONY ROME IN 'LADY IN CEMENT'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsIYtJRllfexjYwxcmIhV8B8K6DY0zGtijnWCOfW8KIkueUYY7agnvU4en-oWRaG3uQEjhLbcGsMhfmxIKS4-Dwcy3iI-O2nk3fNU7V765PhetyFSDNa227Mf1kNm7UsC0Wok4vkCkjTpPWrdq93QAKXcl53fA2CDhjrfBRZ7pUwMBM4sA5a4bN7EtKyS-/s1878/Screen%20Shot%202024-12-14%20at%207.13.52%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1124" data-original-width="1878" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsIYtJRllfexjYwxcmIhV8B8K6DY0zGtijnWCOfW8KIkueUYY7agnvU4en-oWRaG3uQEjhLbcGsMhfmxIKS4-Dwcy3iI-O2nk3fNU7V765PhetyFSDNa227Mf1kNm7UsC0Wok4vkCkjTpPWrdq93QAKXcl53fA2CDhjrfBRZ7pUwMBM4sA5a4bN7EtKyS-/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-12-14%20at%207.13.52%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In LADY IN CEMENT Year: 1967 Rating: ***</td></tr></tbody></table>In the sequel to the neo-noir <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/04/lyon-of-rome.html">TONY ROME</a>, with legendary cool crooner Frank Sinatra in the lead role during the colorful late 1960's... while deep sea diving he literally sees the LADY IN CEMENT at the bottom of the ocean... Her naked, otherwise model-looking corpse surrounded by a guardian shark (that would have probably stripped her to the bone) as the original film's otherwise capable director Gordon Douglas (KISS TOMORROW GOODBYE), who filmed several other of Frank's crime/heist vehicles, doesn't get a lot of tension out of what should be an extremely suspenseful situation: as Rome (actually the stunt diver) merely brushes off the killer fish as if they were nothing...

action, chris robinson, dan blocker, exploitation, frank sinatra, gumshoe, jazz-score, lainie kazan, mystery, neo noir, raquel welch, richard conte, shark, sixties, tony rome

FRANK SINATRA RETURNING AS TONY ROME IN 'LADY IN CEMENT'

In LADY IN CEMENT Year: 1967 Rating: *** In the sequel to the neo-noir TONY ROME , with legendary cool crooner Frank Sinatra in the lead rol...

Written by James M. Tate / 4/07/2020 / No comments / frank sinatra , gumshoe , jeffrey lynn , jill st. john , neo noir , private eye , richard conte , sixties , sue lyon , thriller , tiffany bolling , tony rome

FRANK SINATRA WITH RICHARD CONTE & SUE LYON IN 'TONY ROME'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLOywmxjrBeKdPn4Ckt2WYd9tNI2H2YHD-4V8TRMIwRr5s18So2jYfOaaCQi4aUsXbOHYg8f60FyuMYCqJFIMPgDLHBi-d_YK6L1UVcMsKG3wqcooOltH2-6eRlDemaOT9IRFADIIw79yNCg9rhJk2NbfV5NkXpbAyQjP429eT1t99anBFM6GzRh1lSdnv/s1626/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-15%20at%204.24.04%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="864" data-original-width="1626" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLOywmxjrBeKdPn4Ckt2WYd9tNI2H2YHD-4V8TRMIwRr5s18So2jYfOaaCQi4aUsXbOHYg8f60FyuMYCqJFIMPgDLHBi-d_YK6L1UVcMsKG3wqcooOltH2-6eRlDemaOT9IRFADIIw79yNCg9rhJk2NbfV5NkXpbAyQjP429eT1t99anBFM6GzRh1lSdnv/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-15%20at%204.24.04%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Frank Sinatra with Richard Conte in TONY ROME Year: 1967 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>Frank Sinatra's daughter Nancy's bouncy title song for TONY ROME misleadingly promises a character causing mothers to lock up their daughters — when in fact the only dame in danger is heart of gold "slut" Jill St. John, one of the most contrived femme fatale types in the history of Film Noir, or in this case, Neo Noir cinema... 
 
Seeming like a sexy daydreamed wraith created solely to share parenthetical scenes with — and pretending to be only somewhat interested in when she's really wildly crazy about — our smug anti-hero private dick, whose gambling addiction is as idle and secondhand as the gumshoe plot with its mazy ups-and-downs while prominently featuring the gorgeous Miami, Florida in its groovy 1960's heyday...

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FRANK SINATRA WITH RICHARD CONTE & SUE LYON IN 'TONY ROME'

Frank Sinatra with Richard Conte in TONY ROME Year: 1967 Rating: ***1/2 Frank Sinatra's daughter Nancy's bouncy title song for TONY...

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