Lady in Cement movie storyline. While diving off the Miami coast seeking one of the eleven fabled Spanish Galleons sunk in 1591, private investigator Tony Rome (Frank Sinatra) discovers a dead woman, her feet encased in cement, at the bottom of the ocean.
Rome reports this to Lieutenant Dave Santini (Richard Conte) and thinks nothing more of the incident, until Waldo Gronski (Dan Blocker) hires him to find a missing woman, Sandra Lomax. Gronski has little in the way of affluence, so he allows Rome to pawn his watch to retain his services.
After investigating the local hotspots and picking up on a few names, Rome soon comes across Kit Forrest (Raquel Welch), whose party Sandra Lomax was supposed to have attended. Rome’s talking to Forrest raises the ire of racketeer Al Mungar (Martin Gabel), a supposedly reformed gangster who looks after Kit’s interests.
Thinking there may be a connection between Lomax, Forrester and Mungar, Rome starts probing into their backgrounds and begins a romantic relationship with Kit. With both cops and crooks chasing him and the omnipresent Gronski breathing down his neck, Rome finds himself deep in a case which provides few answers.
Lady in Cement is a 1968 American neo-noir detective film, directed by Gordon Douglas and starring Frank Sinatra, Raquel Welch, Richard Conte, Martin Gabel, Lainie Kazan, Pat Henry and Dan Blocker. A sequel to the 1967 film Tony Rome, and based on the novel by Marvin H. Albert, Lady in Cement was released on November 20, 1968.
Lady in Cemen (1968)
Directed by: Gordon Douglas
Starring: Frank Sinatra, Raquel Welch, Richard Conte, Martin Gabel, Lainie Kazan, Pat Henry, Dan Blocker, Virginia Wood, Richard Deacon, Frank Raiter, Alex Stevens, Christine Todd
Screenplay by: Marvin H. Albert, Jack Guss
Production Design by:
Cinematography by: Joseph Biroc
Film Editing by: Robert Simpson
Costume Design by: Moss Mabry
Set Decoration by: Walter M. Scott, Jerry Wunderlich
Art Direction by: LeRoy Deane, Jack Martin Smith
Music by: Hugo Montenegro
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: November 20, 1968
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