The real surprise is, after he tells her about the policeman outside who would hear if she shot him, he goes out of the French door when she goes to get dressed...and there's no policeman there.
Peter Falk is one of my favorite actors. I love both Colombo and Mannix, I love the shows, the guest stars,the story lines. I also absolutely love the clothes, the furniture, the art on the walls. I also watch it now that I live in Southern California because it's so funny to recognize the filming locations.
As noted by Liliana Muldner, three female murders aren't included: Janet Leigh from "Forgotten Lady" Trish Van Devere from "Make Me a Perfect Murder" and Lee Grant from "Random for a Dead Man". But the scenes that are included here are excellent. Notably, the acting of the female leads is terrific throughout. Even the seeming "over-the-top-acting" of Honor Blackman in "Dagger of the Mind" and Anne Baxter in "Requiem for a Falling Star" is terrific. You have to keep in mind that Honor's and Anne's characters are fading actresses. So, Honor and Anne depicted their characters as melodramatic even in life, especially when caught.
@@MrRobby1 There was also a few more. One of them was the girl who pushed a man named Tony and he ended up dying from falling through a glass table. It was from "Columbo Likes the Nightlife". Her boyfriend, who was opening up a new dance club, hid the body in the bottom of a water tank. It was an accident, but he died from her pushing him. It was also Columbo's last case. Her name was Jennifer Sky. There was also the girl that tried to poison Columbo because he was the one who arrested her husband for a crime and he ended up dying in prison. Her name was Helen Shaver and the name of the episode was "Rest In Peace, Mrs. Columbo". The one with Ruth Gordon is also one of my favorites.
@@captaincarl8230 Good point, but Jennifer Sky's character in "Columbo Likes the Nightlife" wasn't, legally, a "murderer." Carmine Giovinazzo's character died from an accidental fall, and there was no intent to kill him. Unlike Bob Culp's character in "Death Lends a Hand," who struck Patricia Crowley's character, Jennifer Sky's didn't even forcibly hit Carmine Giovinazzo's character, so she could not even be said to have been "reckless" or "negligent."
@@jamesfeldman4234 You're right. I forgot about the scene where he kills the person that was blackmailing them because he had taken a picture of inside her apartment and wanted a night with her in exchange for the photo.
I actually do watch it everyday. I have all of the DVDs and it's also on several television channels everyday where I live. Peacock isn't available in Europe. Whenever there's nothing else good on TV or I feel overwhelmed by so many choices and can't decide what to watch, I always watch a Columbo episode.
_Dagger of the Mind_ That final mad scene with Basehart's breakdown and soliloquy from _The Bard's Play_ and contrapuntal commentary from the other characters is as masterfully constructed as a Bach fugue.
"And besides you're too classy a woman, now would you please get dressed now? I'm gonna use that the next time someone points a gun at me and see if it works.
It must grieve Columbo to have to bust someone who he admired for years. Like movie stars. In the beginning he shows his admiration to them by telling them he saw their movies or read their books. Then he has to turn around and send them to jail.
I ended up, looking up Lee Grant and a host of other roles after her spectacular performance in the initial Colombo. Stunning actress, both visually and professionally.
3:22 Billy Goldenberg's fantastic music really makes this scene - the way it hold the suspense, finally resolving as the murderess hands over the gun. 📺🎵👍 Susan Clark's last look at the Lieutenant shows she's finally met her match, and it's all over!
I think this video should have been entitled "Every Time The Murderer Was a Woman part 1". I don't see Trish Van Devere, Janet Leigh, Ruth Gordon or Lee Grant included, and that is just what I can remember from the original 70's episodes. Maybe the rest will be shown in part 2?
My favorite villainess is Janet Leigh forgotten lady. The one scene that still puzzles me is when she’s in rehearsal taking a break and Columbo talks w her. She looks truly confused for a minute looking at him like he’s a monster, then comes back to reality. I always wondered if this was a sign of her brain disease in the story.
Her character had Alzheimers and was dying so she had a moment of illness seep through, letting the viewer witness her mind before telling us about her health.
There are at least 5 different platforms that air Columbo and not a single one plays the entire episode!!!? I don’t understand why 😮 The pleasure of watching columbo is from start to finish not few minutes here n there put together !
The early Columbo movies were the best. Much later, in the 80s and ‘90s, they almost like paradies and not as well done. They also bucked credibility as is it’s hard to accept Columbo still being a detective Lieutenant after all those years.
There have also been times when men were the murders, women were their accomplices. The one I remember most is the one where the art collector kills his uncle to get his art collection, and his art student girlfriend helps him cover it up. Of course he killed her as well and made it look like a car accident.
There was the episode where the woman was bragging about her boyfriend had stayed the night at her place making love all night, until Columbo made her realize that was a bad idea being his alibi, it wiped the smug look right off her face, classic Columbo
Women are picked as murderer in quite a few of Columbo. It happens quite a bit in Sherlock Holmes movies as well. I'm a bit sympathetic to how the women are set up before the murders, usually. I'm also impressed with your advertising selections. It's a good indication for me, of your success. 💎 God bless
2:50 I love the way the camera starts zooming in, and the look of terrified realization creeps into her face after he says "oh, big difference". Small details like that.
I could never figure why the female killers did not appear in more than one episode each. I would have liked to have seen Trish Van Devere or Susan Clarke, or Faye Dunaway in the 1990's remakes, be the killer in two or three episodes each.
As mentioned by others this isn't EVERY time even if we're only considering the 70s episodes. Lee Grant, Ruth Gordon, Trish Van Devere, Janet Leigh....
I know this is off-topic but I just want to say that since Hollywood has no new ideas and they continually make unnecessary and unwanted remakes of movies and TV shows, they had better not try to remake Columbo. They ruined Charlie's Angels that way. They ruined Hawaii Five-O over that way. The list goes on and on. NBCUniversal, hands-off Columbo!
In "Old Fashioned Murder", did anyone ever figure out the sub plot about the "killing" of Janie's father aka the murderer's fiance? I have watched that episode a dozen times and I feel like some imp part of the plot was left on the editing room floor. It feels like it's never really resolved as to whether she killed him or not.
The scripts involving women are so well written in where the writers completely get the way women think. We have different motives and responses to murder. I LOVE this show. I named my Siamese cat Columbo when I was in 6th grade. I bought 3 copies of TV guide and put them on my wall around my room. That was before I finished going through puberty and got obsessed with Elton John and later Led Zeppelin....(we didn't know Elton was gay back then!)
Lol i got SO confused by your comment. First I googled Helen Shaver to check if she was really wife of Peter Falk and if she passed away- turned out she wasn't his wife, and is doing well until now! I was ready to reply to you 'get lost, troll's xD It took me a few seconds to connect the dots.
I look at an episode like this and think nothing of it. My grandchildren watch this clip and ask me, "What's that blue thing she's talking into, and who's the Operator?" I explained that she was calling for help, and they as, "Why doesn't she just dial 911 on her cell phone?" They couldn't wrap their heads around the concept of no cell phones or phones that have cords, and no 911.
"You have no proof!" "The fountain doesn't run." "OK, I did it." "You have no proof!" "We both have poison ivy." "When did you know it was me?" "You have no proof!" "Look at this gold belt buckle." "I confess." 😂😂😂 It had the most preposterous endings, but who cares? This show was so much fun.
