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Any Old Port in a Storm

Episode aired Oct 7, 1973
TV-PGTV-PG
1h 36m

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8.2/10

3.3K

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Peter Falk and Donald Pleasence in Any Old Port in a Storm (1973)

Crime Drama Mystery

A wine connisseur kills his half- brother to prevent him selling the family winery to a merchant company so he can pay off his gambling debts.A wine connisseur kills his half- brother to prevent him selling the family winery to a merchant company so he can pay off his gambling debts.A wine connisseur kills his half- brother to prevent him selling the family winery to a merchant company so he can pay off his gambling debts.

IMDb RATING

8.2/10

3.3K

YOUR RATING

Director
- Leo Penn
Writers
- Stanley Ralph Ross(teleplay by)
- Larry Cohen(story by)
- Richard Levinson
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Gary Conway in Any Old Port in a Storm (1973)

Donald Pleasence in Any Old Port in a Storm (1973)

Peter Falk and Joyce Jillson in Any Old Port in a Storm (1973)

Peter Falk and John McCann in Any Old Port in a Storm (1973)

Vito Scotti in Any Old Port in a Storm (1973)

Robert Ellenstein in Any Old Port in a Storm (1973)

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Trivia
Peter Falk has stated that this episode is his personal favorite. He said that this was the first episode in which Columbo developed a sincere fondness for the murderer. Speaking of Columbo and the Donald Pleasence character, he said that "the two men shared something in common: an admiration for excellence." This was discussed in a 10-minute interview by Johnny Carson on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962)" three days before the original broadcast of the episode, in which Falk praised the skills and performance of Pleasence.

Goofs
Adrian Carsini reenters the wine cellar where he suffocated his brother 5 days previously and is able to breath normally as if all the life sustaining oxygen has not been consumed. Even if through some architectural miracle he was able to breathe, there is still the point that his brother has been dead for 5 days in a very hot vault and Adrian, with his very delicate sense of smell, shows no reaction to his brother's decomposition nor the resultant body functions during the two days it took him to die.

Quotes
Officer: [seeing Columbo's unlit cigar] Hey-ay, can I light that for you?
Columbo: No, no thanks. Tryin' to cut down. All I do is chew 'em lately.
Officer: Why don't you chew a cheaper cigar?
Columbo: I don't want to cut down on my standard of living.

Connections
Featured in The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson: Peter Falk/Robert Klein/Victoria Principal/Linda Monteleone (1973)

Soundtracks
This Old Man
(uncredited)
English children's folk song
Whistled by Peter Falk

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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.

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