Tony Rome

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Tony Rome
original one-sheet poster
Directed by	Gordon Douglas
Produced by	Aaron Rosenberg
Written by	Marvin H. Albert (novel) Richard L. Breen
Starring	Frank Sinatra Jill St. John Richard Conte
Music by	Lee Hazlewood (title song) Billy May
Cinematography	Joseph F. Biroc
Editing by	Robert L. Simpson
Distributed by	Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Release date(s)	10 November 1967
Running time	110 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
IMDb profile

Tony Rome is a 1967 film directed by Gordon Douglas, adapted from Marvin Albert's novel Miami Mayhem. The film follows the adventures of Miami private investigator Tony Rome (Sinatra) in his quest to locate a missing jewelery pin that belongs to a wealthy heiress, Diana Pines.

1 Plot
2 Trivia
3 Critical Reception
4 References

[edit] Plot

Tony Rome, an ex-cop turned private investigator lives on a powerboat in Miami. He's asked by his former partner, Ralph Turpin (Robert J. Wilke), to take a young woman home, who had been left unconscious in a hotel room. The woman, Diana Kosterman, is the daughter of rich construction magnate Rudolph Kosterman (Simon Oakland), who subsequently hires Rome to find out why his daughter is acting so irrationally.

Diana, after regaining consciousness, discovers that a diamond brooch she was wearing the night before, has gone missing. Diana and her stepmother (Gena Rowlands) also hire Rome, in this instance, to find the lost brooch. This, however, leads Rome into a maze of trouble, all the while being hired and counter-hired by Kosterman, his daughter and his wife.

DVD cover

[edit] Trivia

A sequel was made in 1968, again featuring Sinatra as Tony Rome. It was called Lady in Cement , and co starred Raquel Welch and Dan Blocker.

Sinatra had originally been considered for the lead role in another update of the hardboiled detective pictures of the 1940s, Harper. Tony Rome would continue a mid-sixties revival/update of this kind of film, notable entries being the aforementioned Harper, Marlowe and Madigan.

Nancy Sinatra, daughter of Frank, sang the film's eponymous title track.

Filming took place on location in Miami, Florida, with some scenes being shot during the day at the Fountainbleu Hotel where Sinatra was performing in the evenings.

[edit] Critical Reception

Tony Rome was met with good reviews upon release, although not quite the best notice Sinatra had in his career, still, it was thought by many that he eased well into the kind of role his late friend Humphrey Bogart specialised in.

Roger Ebert's Review: http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19671122/REVIEWS/711220301/1023