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Titre original : Columbo: Uneasy Lies the Crown

Téléfilm
1990
TV-PG
1h 38m

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Cop Drama Police Procedural Crime Drama Mystery

Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueA dentist who works for his father-in-law is a compulsive gambler, deeply in debt. Facing divorce and the prospect of losing his job, he devises a cunning plan to implicate his wife in the m... Tout lireA dentist who works for his father-in-law is a compulsive gambler, deeply in debt. Facing divorce and the prospect of losing his job, he devises a cunning plan to implicate his wife in the murder of her lover. Lt. Columbo investigates.A dentist who works for his father-in-law is a compulsive gambler, deeply in debt. Facing divorce and the prospect of losing his job, he devises a cunning plan to implicate his wife in the murder of her lover. Lt. Columbo investigates.

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Anecdotes
Steven Bochco originally wrote this script in 1973 for the third season, but it was not made because Peter Falk felt the villain was not interesting enough. A few years later, Bochco reworked the story for Affair of the Heart (1977). Falk apparently changed his mind by the time this episode was filmed.

Gaffes
Dr. Gorman claims he knew nothing about a patient's heart condition because he's a dentist, not an M.D. A dentist is required to take a patient's full medical history before treating them, therefore would certainly know about a heart condition.

Citations
Columbo: I don't know what I want, but I don't want the usual.

Connexions
Featured in Columbo: Uneasy Lies the Crown

Bandes originales
Mystery Movie Theme
by Mike Post

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Dentist to the stars

One of the better of the later Columbo movies has James Read as a most prominent dentist with a gambling problem being cheated on by wife Jo Anderson with movie star Marshall Teague and also being kicked out of the practice by father-in-law Paul Burke.

Using the knowledge of his profession Read concocts a scheme to kill the lover and frame the wife for the crime. Read is one cocky and arrogant suspect as he plays the role of the wronged husband standing by his wife.

To show how prominent Read is with the prominent people there's a nice scene here with a poker party with several of his patients playing themselves. They include Dick Sargent, Nancy Walker, and Dodger great 3rd baseman Ron Cey. Read is losing there and he likes to bet frequently on slow horses.

In fact it's at the track where Peter Falk confronts him even still not quite having put it together.

Read's one of Columbo's best villains, the ones you really love seeing tripped up.