Tony Rome
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Gordon Douglas
Frank Sinatra
Jill St. John
Richard Conte
Sue Lyon
Gena Rowlands
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
In return for a fee, Miami Beach private eye Tony Rome helps remove drunken, unconscious Diana Pines from a room in the motel operated by his former partner, Ralph Turpin. Tony takes Diana to her family's mansion, and the girl's millionaire father, construction magnate Rudolph Kosterman, hires him to find out what is troubling his recently married daughter; meanwhile, Diana's stepmother, Rita, offers Tony a fee if he will inform her first of his discoveries. After learning that Diana has lost a diamond pin, Tony is chloroformed and beaten by two thugs and nearly strangled by the girl's imbecilic stepuncle; later, he discovers that Turpin has been shot to death in his office. Assisted in his sleuthing by predatory divorcée Ann Archer, the detective learns that Diana has been giving large sums of money to her alcoholic mother, Lorna, and that Rita's valuable jewelry has been replaced with paste imitations. In pursuit of evidence, Tony has a series of conflicts with a stripteaser and her lesbian lover, a drug addict and her homosexual contact, the two murderers of the jeweler who was making the paste imitations for Rita, and with his old friend Lieutenant Santini of the Miami police, who wants information that Tony possesses. After an attempt is made on Kosterman's life, Tony learns that Turpin was murdered by Rita's ex-husband, Nimmo, who has been blackmailing her because their divorce was never legalized. Nimmo eventually dies from wounds inflicted by Turpin, and the case is finally solved when Lorna's second husband, Adam Boyd, a doctor who lost his license for performing abortions, confesses that he tried to kill Kosterman so that Diana could inherit the family fortune. After Santini arrests the doctor, Tony decides to take a vacation with Ann, but she chooses to return to a safer life with her former husband.
Director
Gordon Douglas
Cast
Frank Sinatra
Jill St. John
Richard Conte
Sue Lyon
Gena Rowlands
Simon Oakland
Jeffrey Lynn
Lloyd Bochner
Robert J. Wilke
Virginia Vincent
Joan Shawlee
Richard Krisher
Lloyd Gough
Babe Hart
Templeton Fox
Rocky Graziano
Elisabeth Fraser
Shecky Greene
Jeanne Cooper
Harry Davis
Stan Ross
Buzz Henry
Deanna Lund
Michael Romanoff
Tiffany Bolling
Crew
Joseph Biroc
Richard Breen
David Dockendorf
Lee Hazlewood
Buzz Henry
Richard Lang
Edith Lindon
Moss Mabry
Billy May
Billy May
Randy Newman
Ben Nye
Michael Romanoff
Aaron Rosenberg
James Roth
Walter M. Scott
David Silver
Elinor Simmons
Robert Simpson
Jack Martin Smith
Malcolm Starr
Howard Warren
Warren Welch
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
We can't claim to be the town virgins and can't afford to be the town tramps.- Ann
This isn't a family. It's just a bunch of people living at the same address.- Tony
Trivia
Notes
Location scenes filmed in Miami, Florida.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States Fall November 1967
Released in United States on Video July 26, 1990
Released in United States on Video July 26, 1990
Released in United States Fall November 1967
