He's not the cool cat Bogart was, but he's good and he comes across. Sinatra turns in a nice, low-key performance. For about three years, ga-ga directors have been throwing the plot overboard with complete disregard for the audience.īut now Frank Sinatra makes a "traditional" detective movie, and Lee Marvin makes a traditional thriller (" Point Blank" (1967)), and Peter Collinson makes a traditional shocker (" The Penthouse"), and suddenly audiences can engage their intelligence in the plots again. "Tony Rome" does this, and to call it a typical detective movie is not an insult. Then you have to have the detective playing it tough and cynical and getting knocked around, but occasionally revealing a glimmer of human warmth in his heart. You have to have a sympathetic character or two: really straight people who are trying to do the best thing, but their past is against them. Then you have to have intrigue and physical danger and a few surprising plot twists. It can be a maltese falcon or a diamond ring or anything just so it's something that (quavering violin in echo chamber) Men Will Kill For. Then it turns out that something valuable is missing. This guy gets involved in a seemingly innocent job, like tracing somebody's lost husband or escorting a drunken daughter home to her millionaire daddy.
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