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20/02/1968 Crime, Mystery, TV Movie, Drama 1h 40m
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The perfect crime had one flaw.

Overview

In Columbo's first outing, a psychiatrist uses a patient he is having an affair with to help him kill his wife, but his perfect alibi may come apart at the hands of a seemingly befuddled LAPD lieutenant.

  1. Richard Irving

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Peter Falk

    Columbo

  2. Gene Barry

    Dr. Ray Flemming

  3. Katherine Justice

    Joan Hudson

  4. William Windom

    Burt Gordon

  5. Nina Foch

    Carol Flemming

  6. Virginia Gregg

    Miss Petrie

  7. Andrea King

    Cynthia Gordon

  8. Susanne Benton

    The Blonde

  9. Ena Hartman

    Nurse

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Reviews

A review by GenerationofSwine
Written by GenerationofSwine on 2023-01-11
As far as detectives go, Columbo is my guy. He's the wrinkled low expectation mess that uses his appearance and working class persona to lull everyone into a felling of superiority that he can exploit...

... and that really works for the detective genre. Most everything else has more of a gimmick. Psyscic Powers, fake psychic powers, OCD, sports cars, Asperger, Dr. House as Sherlock Holmes, you get the point.

Columbo seems more pure detective than all the others do. And Prescription: Murder, with a title that comes straight from the 60s is sort of the pinnacle, it's almost class warfare ...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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