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| Donald Pleasence | ... |
Adrian Carsini
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Joyce Jillson | ... |
Joan Stacey
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Gary Conway | ... |
Enrico Guiseppe Carsini
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| Dana Elcar | ... |
Falcon
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| Julie Harris | ... |
Karen Fielding
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| Vito Scotti | ... |
Maitre d'
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| Robert Donner | ... |
The Drunk
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| Robert Ellenstein | ... |
Stein
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| Robert Walden | ... |
Billy Fine
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Regis Cordic | ... |
Lewis
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Reid Smith | ... |
Andy Stevens
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| John McCann | ... |
Officer
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| George Gaynes | ... |
Frenchman Wine Expert
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Monte Landis | ... |
Steward
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Adrian Carsini is a fanatical wine connoisseur who operates a winery on the California coast. When Adrian's indifferent brother, who owns the winery property, threatens to sell it, Adrian kills him in a fit of rage, then places his brother's body in storage in his wine vault while he travels to New York to attend a conference. Adrian disposes of the body on his return, and in such a way as to make his brother's demise look like an accident. But he hadn't reckoned on the canny Lieutenant Columbo, who is assigned to this case by the LAPD's Homicide Division. Columbo is a cigar-smoking detective with many fetishes, a constantly referred-to but unseen wife, an old car, and a rumpled raincoat. In his usual patronizing manner, Columbo suspects Carsini almost immediately, and he befriends Carsini while slyly searching for clues to link Carsini to the killing. Written by Kevin McCorry <mmccorry@nb.sympatico.ca>
This is my favourite Columbo of all time. Not only is it my favourite Columbo but it also stars one of my favourite actors in Donald Pleasence. Pleasence and Falk form a great chemistry the way they start to trifle around about making wine. At this point the viewer is treated to some of Columbo's best idiosyncratic traits that has made his character so famous. I was hoping that Pleasence and Falk would team up again for a second Columbo but my hopes came to an end when Mr.Pleasence passed away in 1995.