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MPAA Rating: PG Content Advisory: Violence, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Adult Language Movie Release: 1968 DVD Release: 05/24/2005 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV - Closed Captioned Edition: Dual Layered Audio Tracks: English, French, Spanish Subtitles: English, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 33 mins Studio: 20th Century Fox Members Wishing: 2 Genres: Mystery, Thriller, Comedy Thriller, Detective Film

Tony Rome (Frank Sinatra) is a Miami private detective who discovers a lady in cement while scuba diving. Rome is hired by Gronsky (Dan Blocker) to find out if the woman is his missing girlfriend. He interviews Kit Forrest (Raquel Welch), a boozy socialite who had seen the woman at a drunken party earlier. Tony is warned by Kit's neighbor Al Munger (Martin Gabel) to stay away from Kit. Tony discovers Al is a former rackets boss and suspects there is more to the story than Kit and Al are letting on. With the help of local Lieutenant Santini (Richard Conti), Tony contacts artist Arnie Sherwin (Richard Deacon), who helps identify the dead woman as Gronsky's girlfriend. The plot thickens when Gronsky admits that he and Al's son Paul (Steve Peck) were dipping into Al's fund of ill-gotten money. Tony eliminates Kit as a suspect as he tries to solve the crime in this murder mystery. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide

Frank Sinatra - Tony Rome
Raquel Welch - Kitty Forrest
Richard Conte - Lt. Santini
Martin Gabel - Al Mungar
Lainie Kazan - Maria

Gordon Douglas' Lady in Cement (1968) is the second and slightly better-known of Frank Sinatra's two outings as Miami-based private detective Tony Rome, mostly due to the co-starring presence of Raquel Welch, though it has a lot more to recommend it than that. The movie did show up on laserdisc in the late '80s, but the DVD offers a lot more -- for starters, there's a transfer that is infinitely cleaner, brighter, and sharper than the laser, so that the latter now looks like a VHS tape by comparison. The interior shots are all mastered so beautifully on this disc that they're like a massage to the eye, and that's before Raquel Welch appears in the picture. The letterboxed image (2.35:1) is a delight, and the audio is mastered at a decent volume level, with appropriate clarity. The 93-minute movie has been given an incredibly generous 28 chapters, and comes with a nice array of vintage promotional materials -- the original trailer, in English and in Spanish, plus the complete and edited versions of the television promotional spot for the movie, and trailers for a handful of other Welch-starring vehicles. There are optional French- and Spanish-language tracks, and English and Spanish subtitles. ~ Bruce Eder, All Movie Guide