अपनी भाषा में प्लॉट जोड़ेंA self-proclaimed security expert turned into a successful crime show host murders a rival who had been blackmailing him about his sordid past starring in pornography. Lt. Columbo investigat... सभी पढ़ेंA self-proclaimed security expert turned into a successful crime show host murders a rival who had been blackmailing him about his sordid past starring in pornography. Lt. Columbo investigates.A self-proclaimed security expert turned into a successful crime show host murders a rival who had been blackmailing him about his sordid past starring in pornography. Lt. Columbo investigates.
- Maxine Jarrett
- (as Penny Johnson)
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But I do agree that there are clumsy bits especially the beginning setting up who the character is by dialogue (explaining how he got job etc to someone who already knows) a big no no. Don't think it's ever happened in another Columbo new or old certainly not to this low degree. And the clumsiness of the murderer himself any wonder Columbo picked this up straight away. Even I and other non detectives would. And it borrows the cigarette trick from Agenda for Murder and re working tapes from Playback (and a couple of others too) so not exactly original. But what makes it great is that the originality of Columbo and his sleuthing is on full display.
So writing and set ups and ending not perfect but performances and style are. Overall a good classic.
COMMENTARY: Hamilton returns 16 years after his first gig with Columbo in "A Deadly State of Mind" (1975). The crime show is patterned after America's Most Wanted with John Walsh and makes for an interesting context. It's a solid episode that follows the formula to a 't,' nothing more, nothing less. Another reviewer accurately described it as "perfectly serviceable."
GRADE: B/B-
"Murder Can Be Hazardous to Your Health" used the then (and I guess now, if you think about it) true crime shows as the situation for a murder. The murder is committed by a very successful, egomaniacal true crime show host, George Hamilton (in a nice bit of casting). His chain-smoking nemesis, who lost the job to him, played by Peter Haskell, attempts to blackmail Hamilton when he discovers a porno video Hamilton made with an underage actress in his salad days. Hamilton uses Haskell's cigarettes to deliver the death blow via poison, giving himself an alibi as well.
Columbo is brought in to find out what happened. You know the rest. Highly entertaining.
क्या आपको पता है
- ट्रिवियाIn the closing credits of "Crime Alert", Alan J. Levi is listed as supervising producer, Todd London as co-producer, and April Raynell as writer. All three people performed those functions on this episode of Columbo (1971).
- गूफ़Anders could have simply removed the poisoning cigarette from Clarke's hand, and leave. Instead, he starts planting his own cigarette butts into the ashtray, and even one into the victims hand. An experienced Crime Psychologist as Anders, would never plant items that could incriminate him self, to a clean crime scene.
- भाव
Budd Clarke: [Choking to death from a poisoned cigarette] Wade... I can't... I can't breathe. Help me.
Wade Anders: [Smiling] I told you those things were gonna kill ya.
- कनेक्शनFeatured in Columbo: Caution: Murder Can Be Hazardous to Your Health (1991)
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- कंट्री ऑफ़ ओरिजिन
- भाषा
- इस रूप में भी जाना जाता है
- Коломбо: Кого убила капля никотина
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