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Peter Falk, Robert Culp, Pat Crowley, Ray Milland

Brimmer, a short-tempered private detective, is hired by Arthur Kennicut, a prominent Los Angeles publisher, to investigate the publisher's wife's activities under suspicion of an extra-marital affair...( read more  read more... ). Although his investigation discovers an affair with a golf instructor, Brimmer chooses not to tell Kennicut about it and proposes Mrs. Kennicut to act, in return for Brimmer's silence, as a "pipeline" for information involving powerful persons with whom her husband is involved. When Mrs. Kennicut refuses to cooperate and threatens to tell her husband about Brimmer's unsavory proposal, Brimmer becomes enraged and accidentally kills her. He then transports her body across Los Angeles and dumps it in an industrial area, hoping her death will look like a robbery gone awry. Enter Lieutenant Columbo, the cigar-smoking detective in a rumpled raincoat, who does not accept the murder-by-mugging theory surrounding the woman's death. When Kennicut assigns Brimmer to assist Columbo in the murder investigation, Brimmer struggles to deflect Columbo's increasing suspicions that he was involved in Mrs. Kennicut's demise.

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Unrated, 72 min.

Directed by: Bernard L. Kowalski

Release Date: October 6, 1971

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  • Collegekid
    November 6, 2007
    Collegekid
    There are way to many of these, and I have seen them all.
  • zembie
    December 1, 2009
    zembie
    The first of the columbos to show there's a fluctuation in the quality. A thin story with too many incredible aspects of both the murdere's plan, and the ensuing investigation.
    Note the experimental "film in the glasses reflection" scene. That'll make ya laugh. The first 20 sec...( read more)onds or so anyways....
  • hugonar
    November 7, 2007
    hugonar
    Peter Falk = Want to see it.

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