Editing Tony Curtis (section)

===''The Boston Strangler''===
Curtis made his first dramatic film for a number of years with ''[[The Boston Strangler (film)|The Boston Strangler]]'' (1968) playing the title role and response from the critics and public was excellent. He returned to comedy for ''[[Monte Carlo or Bust!]]'' (1969), an all-star car race film in the vein of ''The Great Race''.

He made some comic adventure tales: ''[[You Can't Win 'Em All]]'' (1970) with [[Charles Bronson]] and ''[[Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came]]'' (1970).

Curtis decided it was time to turn to television and co-starred with [[Roger Moore]] in the TV series ''[[The Persuaders!]]''. 

He was one of the villains in ''[[The Count of Monte Cristo (1975 film)|The Count of Monte Cristo]]'' (1975) and had the title role in the gangster film ''[[Lepke (film)|Lepke]]'' (1975). Curtis had the lead in a TV series that did not last,  ''[[McCoy (TV series)|McCoy]]'' (1975-76). He  was one of many names in ''[[The Last Tycoon (1976 film)|The Last Tycoon]]'' (1976) and had the title role in an Italian comedy ''[[Casanova & Co.]]'' (1977). Later, he co-starred and ''[[Vega$]]'' and was in ''[[The Users (1978 film)|The Users]]'' (1978).