Imagine regular old network television with a guest star of Ruth Gordon's stature - only on Columbo. Gordon plays a successful author who attempts to outsmart Columbo. You can already guess what happens. Falk and Gordon are great together. Mariette Hartley plays Gordon's secretary. Gordon does a wonderful star turn in this - she's a conniver, all right, but she's one who never fully recovered from a great tragedy in her life. You really side with her.
I've often wondered, as a major Columbo fan, what really happens to some of these characters when they go to trial. Do the charges stick? I think in the case of Ruth Gordon - she walks.
I've often wondered, as a major Columbo fan, what really happens to some of these characters when they go to trial. Do the charges stick? I think in the case of Ruth Gordon - she walks.