It is not just a joke with blondes, this blonde really caught her both feet in a piece of cement and waves on the ocean floor, where she meets Frank Sinatra. It's 1968's cool music (Hugo Montenegro) and the chicks are even coolest (Raquel Welch is one of them). The rest is just talk. And, unfortunately, in the only scene we see some blood, that does not look genuine, as shown in movies today, you can tell from a post that it is paint. I agreed to give it 2 points because I'm a generous guy. And for Raquel Welch's sexy ass. Not worth wasting one hour and a half watching it. Only if you love Raquel and Frank Sinatra.

This must be a career low point for Frank Sinatra, Raquel Welch and Richard Conte whose acting is uniformly cheesy and staged. With lots of additional bad acting from B movie extras and what is arguably the worst music track in film history (laughable, then annoying), it is not even a shadow of the ingenious, dark and powerful Film Noir of earlier decades. The skin diving scene with a Frank body double is particularly silly and laughable, but it actually takes itself seriously, rather than tongue in cheek. Other high points of hilarity: Raquel's giant hair and the go-go bar scene. This could be considered the Plan Nine from Outer Space of detective movies...

LADY IN CEMENT (1968) ** Frank Sinatra, Raquel Welch, Dan Blocker, Richard Conte, Martin Gabel, Lainie Kazan, Christine Todd. Sinatra reprises his Tony Rome gumshoe character in this other-wise routine detective yarn as he comes across the titular character (Todd), an ehtereal beautiful blonde at the bottom of the sea, while scuba-diving off the coast of sunny Florida, where he finds himself embroiled with the mob, the cops, a love interest in the comely form of heiress Welch - at her most bodacious, and the formidable Blocker as his client Waldo Gronsky, who may or may not have killed her. The on-location vibes and the honeys -including the buxom (and svelte!) Kazan, as well as a few cameos (i.e. Richard Deacon - "DICK VAN DYKE SHOW"'s Mel Cooley - as a beatnik artist! and BS Pully - the original Big Jules from Broadway's GUYS & DOLLS - as a peep show attendee) liven things up in this stagnant slice of pulp fiction.(DIR: Gordon Douglas)

Even if this film does not measure up to the original "Tony Rome" film of 1967, this is still a very enjoyable romp fest nonetheless. I confess I am a Frank Sinatra fan, so seeing him chew up the Florida scenery is fun.And I admit that Dan Blocker as Gronsky is a delight to watch. His role is a real change of pace from his usual signature role of Hoss in "Bonanza," which we get to see playing on a TV! He, Raquel Welch and Richard Conte offer fine support.I was surprised at the nudity in the film, and even more so when Richard Deacon was present, but the scenes work well. Maybe the film is not a world beater, nor up to the level of the original, but it is well worth a watch. And hey, seeing Florida from 1968 is a real treat in itself!