Columbo: Death Lends a Hand
Paese d'origine: USA
Genere: Crime
Lingue: English
Plot: Brimmer, a short-tempered private detective, is hired by Arthur Kenicott, a prominent Los Angeles publisher, to investigate the publisher's wife's activities under suspicion of an extra-marital affair. Although his investigation discovers an affair with a golf instructor, Brimmer chooses not to tell Kenicott about it and propositions Mrs. Kenicott to act, in return for Brimmer's silence, as a "pipeline" for information involving powerful persons with whom her husband is involved. When Mrs. Kenicott 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 Kenicott assigns Brimmer to assist Columbo in the murder investigation, Brimmer struggles to deflect Columbo's increasing suspicions that he was involved in Mrs. Kenicott's demise.
Date di uscita internazionali:
| France:5 January 1973 |
| USA:6 October 1971 |
| USA:90 |
produzione cinematografica:
universal tv
produttore cinematografico: o'neill robert f.
regista: kowalski bernard l.
attore: falk peter culp robert milland ray crowley pat (i) halsey brett james eric (i) keefer don wayland len dressler lieux baldavin barbara
direttore della fotografia: metty russell
montaggio: elias john abroms edward m.
compositori: melle gil
sceneggiatori e soggettisti: link william levinson richard
costumi: miller burton
troupe varia: belding richard bochco steven fitzgerald wayne kline henry
varie ecomond press: universal title
produttore cinematografico: o'neill robert f.
regista: kowalski bernard l.
attore: falk peter culp robert milland ray crowley pat (i) halsey brett james eric (i) keefer don wayland len dressler lieux baldavin barbara
direttore della fotografia: metty russell
montaggio: elias john abroms edward m.
compositori: melle gil
sceneggiatori e soggettisti: link william levinson richard
costumi: miller burton
troupe varia: belding richard bochco steven fitzgerald wayne kline henry
varie ecomond press: universal title