Welcome back to my blog. Here’s my recommendation of a movie to check out today and hope you punch your “Ticket to the Movies!” OK, let’s go with “Tony Rome” starring the legendary Frank Sinatra as it is a nice slice of noir-light – it’s noir, just not as heavy as the genre usually produces it and offers Sinatra being Sinatra (you know, his familiar insouciance mixed in with a world-weary outlook on life).
I’ve always enjoyed Sinatra’s “caper” and private-eye thrillers from the original “Ocean’s 11” to “Assault on a Queen” (a story about robbing the ocean liner Queen Mary) to the police procedural “The First Deadly Sin.” Sinatra does a good job with “Tony Rome” and you get your metaphorical money’s worth!
Sinatra is the title character and he’s a private eye in Miami and gets pulled into a very toxic family dynamic that is the story of “Tony Rome.” You get a very solid supporting cast from a young(ish) Gena Rowlands to Jill St. John to Simon Oakland and to some Sinatra favorites with Richad Conte and boxing legend Rocky Graziano, who was in several Sinatra films.
“Tony Rome” has Sinatra slipping through a layer of Miami’s sleazy underbelly, even though the main family he encounters is mostly “high society” (such as you could find in Miami at the time).
The film is solid through three-quarters of the story, but its biggest failure is how “Tony Rome” staggers to a conclusion that isn’t as solid in storytelling as the rest of the movie. Also, the film is of its age: It shows a tough guy’s-guy, who is somewhat mysoginistic; and is culturally set in its day with men in charge, sexism, racism and no political correctness to be found anywhere.
Note from IMDb.com’s terribly thin trivia page: “The character Tony Rome appeared in three novels by Marvin H. Albert in the early 1960s: ‘Miami Mayhem’ (filmed as Tony Rome (1967), ‘Lady in Cement’ and ‘My Kind of Game.’” “Lady in Cement” became Sinatra’s sequel to “Tony Rome” and it co-starred Raquel Welch.
So, I say punch your “Ticket to the Movies!” and watch the “Tony Rome.” You can find it for rent on a variety of streaming platforms. You will thank me later, if you watch “Tony Rome.”
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