Columbo Goes to the Guillotine | Echoes of Columbo
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- We're a little late, so queue this one up for NEXT March, folks! The first of "Columbo" after an 11-year absence, "Goes to the Guillotine" is a fascinating case study in how the new-era episodes can go brilliantly right and horribly wrong at the same time.
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That Phillips head screw line is such a weird decision. If he was talking to a kid, fair. Explaining it to a grown-ass man is crazy.
He really piles on the “old guy charm” in these new-era episodes.
You'd be surprised how many adults to this day still need such things explained to them...
I think from this point on, Falk was much more in control over the franchise than in the classic era, couple that with Columbo being older you get a lot of subtle changes that stuck until the end. Dyson was based somewhat on James Randi, who was gay, but had not come out when this episode aired. The ending does bother me as it relied on Columbo being 1000% certain he had the killer AND that this same killer would try to kill him.... had he been mistaken on either, had Blake not tried to kill him, well.....
The bartender was played by Robert Costanzo, who would become famous for his own police role as Det. Harvey Bullock on Batman: The Animated Series. Another detective who was often compared to an "unmade bed".
Great to see a new upload! This episode is further down on my re-watch list of Columbo.
The kid magician is rather annoying but I do like the fictional James Randi character.
That’s deep knowledge! I never knew about the James Randi real-life connection until I read about it in “Shooting Columbo” by David Koenig.
Good review! Always enjoy your insights. I have to admit I really struggled to get through Columbo episodes from Season 8. The episodes got more unrealistic and the acting got worse (maybe that's how the directors and writers told them to do it) and Columbo started a quick decent into being a clown, with his car backfiring, etc. They also started to copy from earlier episodes as you mentioned. The funny thing is in those days you had to be in front of your TV or you missed it, so I stuck it out even though I was disappointed. I know it just gets worse...
Haha, that guillotine murder seems fairly graphic for oldschool prime time television.
Mrs. Echoes said it was as bad as John Wick 3!
@@EchoesOfColumbo It's still far from realistic, being a weird circle on the blade & some later dripping. "Columbo Goes To College" is about the only time it was ever really close.
Another character portrayed by Anthony Zerbe would be killed the same year - on the silver screen a few months later.
Milton Krest from “License to Kill”?
@@EchoesOfColumbo "License" to Kill - 1984 w/ Denzel W 🎥
_LICENCE_ to Kill - 1989 🎥
Love your videos man, always so insightful in a way I've never thought about before. I make Columbo videos myself but I have to just ask... When are we going to team up to do a video about Under Siege 2!?! That's one my favourite movies and you've referenced it twice! "Chance favours the prepared mind" and all that.
I am ALL IN on anything Under Siege 2-related!
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The problem with it is why dose he try to kill him..
He couldn’t possibly have thought he’d get away with it!
Falk was never as sharp in the later Columbo's. He is rather more croaky, too. The plot to this one is rather too elaborate, in my opinion.
Agreed - one could do a whole video about how drastically Falk aged between the 70s episodes and the “newer” ones.
From 1989 to 2003 Peter Falk PLAYED Columbo. From 1971 to 1978 Peter Falk WAS Columbo.
I think Falk began to change before the end of the seventies run. Really I can't think of any actor who could have matched Falk's portrayal of Columbo, especially up to around 1976. It fit him like a glove. In the 'new' Colimbo's he seemed in better form in some episodes than others, but he never came close to his old self. I do think out of the later ones, he was at his best in around the period of Rest In Peace, Mrs Columbo, Agenda For Murder, Columbo Goes To College and Uneasy Lies The Crown. He seemed a little fresher than in the first few, like Columbo Goes To The Guillotine and Sex And The Married Detective. However, after around 1991, when he began playing Columbo more sporadically, and with his increasing age, he was deteriorating most noticeably.
Unfortunately, I feel that this episode was more geared at impressing the Critics than impressing the Columbo fans. As much as I hate to say it, it a bottom 10 episode for me.
It’s hard to tell exactly what they were going for with this episode, isn’t it?