Tony Rome (1967)
Ex-cop turned private eye, Tony Rome lives and works in Miami. For $200, he returns a young woman to her father's house after she passes out in a seedy hotel, and he keeps the hotel's name out of it. Trouble is, she's missing a diamond pin, When the pin does turn up, it's fake. The girl's wealthy father hires Tony to find out what happened to the real stones. Bodies pile up.
Why Get Bruised, Man? Let Tony Rome Do It...He Gets Paid for It!
Tony: Nobody steals to do nice things. You name it, and they'll steal for it - narcotics, blackmail, sex. Nobody steals to build hospitals.
Vaca Cut Botel, Marathon, Florida Keys, Florida, USA
(Exterior b-roll)
Fontainebleau Hilton Resort - 4441 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, Florida, USA
(Ann's hotel)
Vizcaya Museum & Gardens - 3251 S Miami Avenue, Miami, Florida, USA
(Kosterman mansion exteriors)
Mount Sinai Medical Center Hospital 4300 Alton Rd, Miami Beach, Florida, USA
(hospital exterior)
Sheraton Four Ambassadors, 801 Brickell Bay Dr, Miami, Florida, USA
(construction site)
The character Tony Rome appeared in three novels by Marvin H. Albert in the early 1960s: "Miami Mayhem" (filmed as this movie), Lady in Cement (1968) (filmed under the same name), and "My Kind of Game."
Tony Rome's convertible car is a 1961 Ford Galaxie Sunliner.
Templeton Fox, who plays Mrs. Schuyler (the pussycat lady), is the mother, with Robert L. Welch, of Fleetwood Mac guitarist Bob Welch (writer of "Sentimental Lady").
Stella Stevens turned down the role that was subsequently accepted by Jill St. John. Stevens had a onetime date with Frank Sinatra a few years prior. He was looking for a relationship with a woman not interested in a career of her own and spent the entire date trying to talk Stevens into giving up hers. It was their first and last date, and she didn't want to work with him.
The beach parking lot that Tony Rome drives through before stopping at the hotel early in the movie was Pier Park at the corner of 1st Street and Ocean Drive. It is currently (as of June 2022) the site of Nikki Beach Club.
Continuity
When Tony (Frank Sinatra) talks to the clerk at the Vaca Cut 'boatel', the view from over the shoulder of the clerk, there is a photo/card in his shirt pocket that sticks up over the edge of the pocket. In the opposite view, nothing is in his pocket.
Factual errors
Hollywood always vastly overestimates the speed with which chloroform is effective. It takes at least five minutes of constant application to induce loss of consciousness and then must be applied continuously to maintain unconsciousness. Also, the chin must be supported to prevent the tongue from obstructing the airway. There is also a high risk of possibly-fatal cardiac arrhythmia with its use, which was one of the major factors in its being discontinued as a surgical anesthetic.