No Way to Treat a Lady (7/8) Movie CLIP - That Girl Is A Gem (1968) HD

CLIP DESCRIPTION:
Morris Brummel (George Segal) brings Kate Palmer (Lee Remick) home to meet his mother.

FILM DESCRIPTION:
New York detective Moe Brummell (George Segal) is assigned to track down a serial killer who has been preying on lonely middle-aged ladies. Each of the bodies is discovered with a lipstick kiss drawn on the forehead. We know (but Brummell doesn't) that the murderer is Christopher Gill (Rod Steiger), a round-the-bend actor whose hatred for his mother has driven him to his killing spree. Gill is fond of adopting a different personality and costume with each killing (a priest, a homosexual, a plumber etc.), making him doubly difficult to trace. When Brummell comments to the media that he's up against a criminal genius, he finds himself the reluctant recipient of Gill's anonymous phone calls, wherein the killer plants cryptic clues leading to his next crime. It may not be readily apparent from the previous sentence, but No Way to Treat a Lady is a comedy-albeit a jet-black one. Moe Brummell is hampered with an archetypal Jewish mamma (Eileen Heckart), who in her own way is as deadly as the elusive Christopher Gill. Lee Remick plays Brummell's girl friend, who, as the only person who might be able to identify Gill, is placed in harm's way at the film's climax. A curious by-product of No Way to Treat a Lady is the fact that Rod Steiger was cast in the lead in the 1976 biopic W.C. Fields and Me on the basis of the third-rate Fields imitation he offers to George Segal during one of his taunting phone calls.

CREDITS:
TM & © Paramount (1968)
Cast: George Segal, Eileen Heckart, Lee Remick
Director: Jack Smight
Producer: Sol C. Siegel
Screenwriters: William Goldman, John Gay

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[frannyzooey]

"See, good to order around and good to yell at."

[jimj]

Hilarious. Definitely the Jewish mother archetype. I'll bet the whole cast had great fun doing this scene.

[CuteCatFaith]

Quite a scary movie, with comedy added.  I love this scene.  Reminds me of my second marriage, where I had to fake being Jewish.  It was highly amusing, doling out a tiny weekly allowance and demanding quality jewelry.  I don't even like jewelry but I had to periodically think of something and pitch him to earn more -- that was kinda weird but he actually wanted a non-Jewish blonde version of his blonde Jewish fiancée.  Actually, he was picky, too and I always gave him the best, so it was okay but really, I hadn't understood that men are the second class in Jewish life.

[carolcrowley]

How do you equate a person's personality and plus accent to their religion?
I've never heard of a Catholic accent.

[jdollinter]

Why are the women wearing those terrible wigs ?