I liked the cast in The Most Crucial Game. Robert Culp, Dean Jagger, Valerie Harper, Susan Howard and Dean Stockwell.
Culp is Paul Hanlon, the general manager of an American Football team, the new owner is Eric Wagner, an idle playboy more interested in partying who has taken over the business from his late father.
Hanlon plans the murder by popping down to Wagner's house and killing him by the pool and making it look like an accident. Hanlon does this while the football game is on and his alibi is that he was watching from an executive box.
I never fathomed the motive Hanlon had for killing Wagner unless he thought he would one day get fired by him. The ending was rather weak.
The one sore point for me was when Hanlon hides his footprints by hosing the pool area down with water. Now I have swum in swimming pools in LA. With the sun bearing down the water dries up in no time. By the time Columbo shows up and we see him listening to the football commentary in the car, there would had been no water around the pool.
Culp is Paul Hanlon, the general manager of an American Football team, the new owner is Eric Wagner, an idle playboy more interested in partying who has taken over the business from his late father.
Hanlon plans the murder by popping down to Wagner's house and killing him by the pool and making it look like an accident. Hanlon does this while the football game is on and his alibi is that he was watching from an executive box.
I never fathomed the motive Hanlon had for killing Wagner unless he thought he would one day get fired by him. The ending was rather weak.
The one sore point for me was when Hanlon hides his footprints by hosing the pool area down with water. Now I have swum in swimming pools in LA. With the sun bearing down the water dries up in no time. By the time Columbo shows up and we see him listening to the football commentary in the car, there would had been no water around the pool.