T7.E4

How to Dial a Murder

Episódio foi ao ar 5 de abr. de 1978
TV-PG
1 h 13 min

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Nicol Williamson in How to Dial a Murder (1978)

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Adicionar um enredo no seu idiomaA behavioral psychologist whose wife died under suspicious circumstances trains his two Doberman dogs to kill her lover using the command word 'rosebud' through a telephone. Lt. Columbo is i... Ler tudoA behavioral psychologist whose wife died under suspicious circumstances trains his two Doberman dogs to kill her lover using the command word 'rosebud' through a telephone. Lt. Columbo is investigating.A behavioral psychologist whose wife died under suspicious circumstances trains his two Doberman dogs to kill her lover using the command word 'rosebud' through a telephone. Lt. Columbo is investigating.

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Peter Falk

Columbo

Nicol Williamson

Dr. Eric Mason

Kim Cattrall

Joanne Nicholls

Joel Fabiani

Dr. Charles Hunter

Frank Aletter

Dr. Ernie Garrison

Tricia O'Neil

Miss Cochran - the dog trainer

Ed Begley Jr.

Officer Stein

Fred Jay Gordon

Technician
(as Fred J. Gordon)

John Blower

Police Officer
(não creditado)

Henry

Columbo's Dog
(não creditado)

Paul LeClair

Audience Member
(não creditado)

Richard Niehaus

Audience Member
(não creditado)

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Curiosidades
One of the many movie posters on display in Dr. Mason's house is for the thriller, Dúvida (1944), starring Charles Laughton. This is significant, as the structure of "The Suspect" prefigures the formula for "Columbo", presenting the viewer not only with a killer whose identity is known from the outset, but also a seemingly mild-mannered and polite police detective who befriends the killer and knowingly uses him as a sounding-board for his various theories about the crime. It is the close relationship between killer and detective thus formed that leads to the resolution of the story. It is not known if William Link and Richard Levinson, creators of "Columbo", ever saw this film.

Erros de gravação
Dr. Mason addresses Columbo as "Lieutenant" when they first see each other at the crime scene, even though they hadn't met yet. Then the detective introduces himself as Lieutenant Columbo.

However, the psychologist is seen exiting his own house where he can have asked a police officer who was in charge and where to find them.

Citações
Lt. Columbo: [trying to trigger the attack word for the dogs] Kill! Kiss! Diamonds! Rubies! Sneakers!

Conexões
Referenced in Os Simpsons: Smoke on the Daughter (2008)

Trilhas sonoras
This Old Man
(uncredited)
Traditional English children's marching song
Whistled by Peter Falk

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Williamson is good, but don't say 'Rosebud'.

British actor, Nicol Williamson, as the guest murderer, earns his transatlantic paycheck in this fine story. As always with Columbo, the culprit is rich, resourceful and highly intelligent, and Williamson's take on the character, a motivational psychologist, is detailed and meticulous. It may not be his finest screen performance (check out The Bofors Gun and Inadmissible Evidence), but he makes a worthy foil to Falk.

The story has some interesting cultural asides, such as L.A.'s burgeoning self-help craze of the 70's, and the cult of the movies, particularly Citizen Kane; something which proves to be both the killer's murder weapon and his eventual undoing.

The only let-down is the somewhat low-key ending. I would have preferred more of a flourish from both actors, but it wasn't really in the script for them.

Over all, it's an intelligent and interesting movie. Patrick Williams' ethereal/ominous music (woodwinds and low strings) is rather good, and which, once or twice, quotes a fragment of Bernie Herrmann's Psycho score; why? For the hell of it. And why not?