Starring: Frank Sinatra, Faye Dunaway, David Dukes, George Coe, Brenda Vaccaro Directed By: Brian G. Hutton Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, HiFi Sound, NTSC Label: Warner Home Video Number of Items: 1 Picture Format: Pan & Scan Region Code: 1 Release Date: May 18, 1999 Running Time: 112 minutes Theatrical Release Date: October 03, 1980
Description: Lawrence Sanders' nerve-fraying bestseller stars Frank Sinatra as a New York detective coping with his wife's mysterious and incurable illness -- and hunting an ice hammer-wielding killer. Year: 1980
Deadly is Right Sinatra's last starring role in an adaptation of Lawrence Sanders' landmark novel holds some nostalgic sway over some of us, but all in all simply isn't very good. Frank has some effective moments and there's about 20 minutes of good cat-and-mouse with the killer towards the end, but otherwise everything's pretty tame and dull. The labored and drawn-out scenes of Faye on her deathbed aren't bad enough to be camp, but they come pretty close. Additionally, the lame full-screen presentation on this DVD makes this look more like a TV movie than a feature.
Sinatra should have been Dirty Harry Sinatra should have been Dirty Harry - and almost WAS - then he wouldn't have been doing movies like this. However, it's worth a look to see Sinatra's last flick. Not too terribly bad.
Warner Bros Re-Issues Film but still Pan/Scan! Warner Bros decided to reissue this film and it is still Pan/Scan! We still don't have a Widescreen version of this film! I guess this one is one for the bargin bins of Wal-Mart!
Frank's best I loved this movie. I read the book first and it was wonderful. A friend of mine gave it to me and after that I read all of the books it this series.
I think this it the best movie Frank Sinatra ever made. It is an excellent movie. It is a good crime story and well done. If you like a good who done it movie you will like this one.
Greatly underrated film Those who choose to review don't seem to "get" this film. Sinatra is able to portray the character of a realistically strong, dedicated, and loving man. He is one of the few actors who could pull it off. Sinatra is both believable and fascinating in his role as an exceptional police investigator with a palpable off-beat manliness who maintains his allegiance to his chosen duty while suffering the great tradgedy of his own personal life.
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