No Way to Treat a Lady (1968) on Netflix
A Broadway theater owner and director disguises himself to put lonely women at ease, then strangles them. Detective Morris Brummel works the case and the killer starts calling him.
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- Rotten Tomatoes89%
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Plot summary
Christopher Gill runs a Broadway theater and cannot let go of his mother, a stage actress who has died. He preys on lonely middle-aged women, taking on disguises such as a priest or a policeman to win their trust, and strangles them before drawing a pair of red lips on their foreheads. Detective Morris Brummel works the murders, and a newspaper line in which he calls the latest one well planned flatters Gill, who begins telephoning him to talk about the case. Brummel's mother shares his home and would rather he were a doctor like his brother. Kate Palmer, a tour guide who caught sight of Gill leaving her dead neighbor's apartment, takes an interest in Brummel.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about No Way to Treat a Lady (1968)
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- Tony Curtis was Robert Evans' choice to play the detective in No Way to Treat a Lady, but director Jack Smight insisted the role go to George Segal.
- William Goldman wrote the novel No Way to Treat a Lady while blocked on his 1964 book Boys and Girls Together, inspired by an article suggesting there might be two Boston Stranglers; he wondered what would happen if they got jealous of each other.
- Eileen Heckart filmed her scenes during the day while appearing at night on stage in You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running.
- Director Jack Smight was entitled to 15% of No Way to Treat a Lady's net profits; he said he never received any and blamed studio accounting.
- Producer Sol Siegel was reportedly unhappy with the film's ending, but was overruled by the director and star.
