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Overview
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Director:
Writers:
David Rayfiel (teleplay)
Stanley Ralph Ross (story)
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TV Series:
Original Air Date:
3 March 1974 (Season 3, Episode 7)
Plot:
A gospel singer wants to be rid of his zealous wife. But a murder made to look like an airplane accident does not fool the wily Lt. Columbo. full summary | add synopsis
User Comments:
It's Johnny Cash! more (18 total)
Cast
(Episode Cast overview, first billed only) | Peter Falk | ... | Columbo |
 | Johnny Cash | ... | Tommy Brown |
 | Ida Lupino | ... | Edna Brown |
| John Dehner | ... | Roland Pangborn |
| Sorrell Booke | ... | J.J. Stringer |
| Bill McKinney | ... | Luke Basket |
| Vito Scotti | ... | Mr. Grindell |
| Janit Baldwin | ... | Tina |
 | John Randolph | ... | The Colonel |
| Lucille Meredith | ... | Lady |
 | Richard Caine | ... | Bennett |
| Don Mantooth | ... | Phil (as Donald Mantooth) |
| Jefferson Kibbee | ... | Frank |
| Bonnie Van Dyke | ... | Maryann |
| Douglas Dirkson | ... | Jeff (as Doug Dirkson) |
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Runtime:
99 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.33 : 1 more
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Certification:
Finland:K-18 (2005) (DVD) (self applied)
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In-joke: Tommy Brown refers to his unseen music arranger as "Nick Solacanto"; the director of the episode is Nicholas Colasanto. more
Goofs:
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Columbo says that a thermos is "metal inside glass". In fact, thermoses are invariably glass inside metal; they wouldn't work the other way around. more
Quotes:
Lt. Columbo: Any man who can sing like that can't be all bad more
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Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for "Columbo" (1971)| Recent Posts (updated daily) | User |
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| Questions (spoilers) | geekanonymous |
| Bonnie Van Dyke | elizabethdicely |
| what song ?? | jacobn-3 |
| I saw the light song | smily-14 |
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When Academy Award nominee Joaquim Phoenix was researching Johnny Cash, he mentioned this Columbo episode in particular. Johnny Cash plays a man who is very similar in some respects to his real personality. They're both musicians and singers but that's it. Johnny's character is a recovering criminal who married Ida Lupino's character who is overly zealous about God and religion. When her character learns of her husband's straying with younger girls, he decides to off them on the plane but survives. Anyway, I love watching Johnny Cash and Peter Falk together. I love the scene where Columbo researches parachutes and goes into the sewing room where the woman thinks she is losing her mind. Anyway, I remember that scene in particular as he tries to figure out how he did it. In the end, it's just worth watching. It's for Johnny Cash fans especially. He would have been a wonderful actor as well as singer.