The greatest movie ever made..!

Sorry, this movie sucks

Lack of good storyline.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

****SPOILERS**** Frank Sinatra in his first of two "Tony Rome" movies is Miami PI Tony Rome who's gambling addiction has him taking on any case that comes to him. Even tracking down the reason why a ladies cat, or pussy as she calls it, has been acting strangely as of late and not eating her "Puss & Boots" dinners or drinking her milk as well as hiding in the closet and not coming out to greet her. It's when Tony is called by his friend hotel detective Ralph Turpin,Robert J. Wilks, to clear up a problem that he's facing with a drunk and out of it teen Diana Pines, Sue Lyon, being found laid out and smashed in his hotel that his trouble really begins.It turns out that Diana is the daughter of Miami construction mogul Rudy Kosterman,Simon Oakland, who wants to keep her name out of the news and is willing to pay him any amount of cash to do it! What really complicate all this is that Diana had a diamond pin on that turned out to be missing and if found and tried to be converted to cash it would be discovered that it's in fact fake! And the reason for that is that both Diana and her step-mom Mrs. Rita Kosterman, Gena Rowlands, have been switching the diamonds in Rudy's wall safe with fake jewelry! In Diana's case to pay off her real mom Lorna, Jeanne Cooper, a drunk and falling down on her face alcoholic's bar tab and as for Rita, Diana's step mother, to pay off her 1st husband a guy called Nimmo in preventing him from blackmailing her with the fact that she's still legally married to him.***SPOILERS*** Toney gets worked over a number of times in the movie and ends up gunning down a couple of those that worked him over before he gets to the bottom of the case with the help of shapely and sexy red head Ann Archer, Jill St. John, who's just along for the ride: On Tony's houseboat the "Straight Pass". Frank Sinatra is no Hurphrey Bogart or Robert Mitchum but good enough as a down and out on his luck PI to be effective but his action scenes, with him slugging and shooting it out with the bad guys, are anything but convincing. Still his wise cracking and having women swoon over him even though he has nothing financially, on him living on the balls of his a**, to offer them hits the spot or is on target far more then his firsts do in all the action scenes that he's in.

This is an interesting and very modern detective film. Frank Sinatra plays the title role--a private detective who seems very cool and disaffected. Of the three detective shows he made in the late 60s, I'd rate this one #2--behind the superior film "The Detective". However, this exceptional film is not related to "Tony Rome" or its sequel "The Lady in Cement". Regardless, Sinatra's world-weary performances were excellent--even if he seemed to try to make it look like he's not trying.The film begins with Tony doing what seems like a very mundane and not at all dangerous task--bringing home a drunk young lady to her rich daddy (Simon Oakland). Oddly, however, this good deed ended up leading to an apparently minor task--to find the young lady's missing earring. And, this task led to murder...in fact, a LOT of murders and mayhem. By late 60s standards, this film is awfully violent and Tony isn't exactly always the macho hero. Although he generally gets the best of it, he, too, gets the crap knocked out of him a few times in this rough and tumble film.As I said, I preferred Sinatra's "The Detective", but not by much. "Tony Rome" is a very good private eye film--a bit like a grittier version of "The Rockford Files"...minus most of the laughs. It's also odd that Tony is NOT the perfect manly sort of hero--especially since he repeatedly shows a stronger desire to wrap up the case than unwrap the very alluring Jill St. John--who spends much of the movie pursuing Tony. A very good film--especially since the mystery turns out to be a very interesting one. Worth your time.By the way, a couple interesting parts in the film are a cameo by the ex-champ Rocky Graziano as well as a VERY unusual sort of role for the comic Shecky Greene. Also, I just loved Tony's line "This is not a family. Just a bunch of people living at the same address." Priceless and indicative of the sort of smart-allecky stuff he tosses about during the film.

"Tony Rome" is a 1960's update of the classic 1940's private eye / film noir formula, which works out rather well. It is largely a plot and dialogue driven film, and luckily both elements deliver: the plot is appropriately convoluted and twisted but still followable, and the dialogue is sharp, snappy and sometimes very funny ("Oh, I get it. She's the mother and you're the grandmother" or ""First Diana hires me, then her father hires me, and now you wanna hire me. If you had a bigger family I could retire!"). Sinatra plays the private detective role with a well-judged mixture of seriousness and humor, cynicism and ethics, toughness and fatigue. Jill St. John begins as an independent, smart character, just like her more famous role in the Bond outing "Diamonds Are Forever"; the (welcome) difference is that in "Tony Rome" she stays that way to the end. The rest of the cast is solid. The Miami locations are well-used; they're not just background, they give the film its own character. Even if it's not the most exciting thriller of its decade or anything, I would still recommend "Tony Rome" to any Frank Sinatra / mystery fans. (**1/2)

Long before Miami Vice which had hip cop Don Johnson living on a boat with an alligator in Miami Beach, you had Frank Sinatra as private eye Tony Rome doing the same.He's an ex-cop now a private eye who still has an inside with the police in the person of Richard Conte who's his former partner. Turns out he needs him when he takes the case of Sue Lyon who misplaced a diamond stickpin. Before the film ends Sinatra has himself all involved with every member of Lyon's family including wives and ex-wives, husbands and ex-husbands in a lovely blackmail scheme. Quite a number of people wind up dead including Sinatra's private eye partner Robert J. Wilkie. In the tradition of Sam Spade, though he might not have thought Wilkie the salt of the earth, it's an obligation to find out who shortened Wilkie's life span.Tony Rome is a Sinatra project through and through. Basically he just plays himself or at least shows the public persona that we know him for. Frank got parts in this for restaurant owner pallies, Mike Romanoff and Jilly Rizzo and one even for Rocky Graziano as a punch drunk old pug. There's even a part for Jill St. John as an amorous divorcée who you're never quite sure how she fits in the story. Jill and Frank were once a hot item, but this one was for old time sake.The problem with Tony Rome is you really do have to be a Sinatra fan to watch it. And I don't mean just of his singing, you have to be really into the whole rat pack scene. Otherwise Tony Rome and it's sequel Lady in Cement just ain't for you.