The camera techniques used on this killing were simple, but brilliant, along with the eerie music and Lee Grants ice cold stare, make this one of the most chilling scenes in early Columbo. Never tire of seeing this one.
This great series has really stood the test of time. It's testimony not only to Peter Falk, but to all the great actors who appeared with him to make it the wonderful programme it was. Everybody who was involved should be very proud.
She mailed the ransom letter to herself, to be open and read by herself. By the time the cops saw it her prints would justifiably be all over it anyway so there’s no point to wear gloves making it.
4:56 *When your husband you married for money and power finally says something he would say if he were kidnapped so now you can execute your long thought over plan of killing him*
Odcinki, do których muzykę stworzył Billy Goldenberg to najlepsze odcinki w całej serii. Świetne połączenie ciekawych rozwiązań techniki filmowania z niesamowicie nastrojową muzyką.
I had a beautiful blue sculpted wool carpet, like the one in the murder scene. Now I am wondering how much the awesome set design has actually influenced my preferences, lol.
Wish we have a time machine-the 70s we have all the great actors-films LEE GRANT- PETER FALK-JOHNNY CASH in swan song and so on and on COLUMBO- just great
She was dumb. Columbo had zero proof until she tried to pay the man's daughter off. She should have called the girl's bluff and told her to go to Columbo then if she had evidence. It was only when she tried to pay the girl off that Columbo was able to arrest her.
@@misspriss2482 But the girl was very clever and put on a great act that she was most interested in the money. The step-mother fell for it. I wouldn't say she was dumb. If the girl didn't play along with Columbo's plan she would have gotten away with it.
@@GillAgainsIsland12why couldn't the stepmother claim that she was paying the girl just so she could go away and not be a nuisance day and night? She could also claim she was giving money to her out of her heart because the poor child deserved it as she had lost her father as well as her trust fund.
@@amjadmuhammadiqbal4721 Because they were marked bills. That's how the FBI planned on capturing the "kidnappers", by tracing where those marked bills were being spent. But the stepmother probably had a plan to launder that cash at a future date.
I'm pretty sure that getting fingerprints off of paper was considered very difficult until the 80s or 90s. I remember reading something about an improved method involving lasers that made the practice more widespread and reliable.
Yeah it isn't unreasonable for her to have touched a ransom note she'd supposedly received. Finding her fingerprints on it wouldn't seem to prove anything.
During this time Universal television shows had a particular style where you can tell it was Universal presentation without the Logo. They had great producers, directors and writers and actors. Not like to day where we have nothing but trash
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams.
Looking at this 50 years later, I mean those sets of the house looks like a some room from Queen Marie Antoinettes Palace. I mean a who decorates a house like that these days. Patrica Mattick, the stepdaughter died of cancer in 2003
*Mrs Columbo* This was my husband's first attempt (minus the pilot Prescription for Murder) to introduce his highly individualistic style and mannerism into the character. The searching for pen in the dark was a minor stab. The royal throne detour and soap follow-up was a more sustained attempt. It's the little things.
A fascinating episode: one of the first and one of the best. It was an example of screenwriting that set the standard not only for the brilliant inductive skills Columbo would display over his seasons and entertain generations, but also for his skill at the chessboard with his nemeses in laying the traps that reliably caught them. It was as if he only needed to pull together enough clues of what had happened to extrapolate what his own next moves needed to be. Like Marcus Aurelius noted in Book 8; Verse 11: "What is this by itself in its own constitution, what is its substance or substrate, what its causal element, what its function in the world and how long a time does it persist?" Columbo was the Master. But this episode included a terribly misogynistic scene, which displayed one of so many traits for which Columbo merited a kick to the keister with a size 13.
Much later on, they did an episode where the villain was a film director who perhaps was modeled on Spielberg. I don't know how ideas are formed, written, or developed, but wouldn't be interesting if it were Spielberg who tossed off : hey what if I were a bad guy? what would it look like it?
So the killer portrayed by actress Lee Grant who was 5'-3" and all of maybe 125 pounds puts a 6'-0" 180-lb dead man in the car trunk all by herself??? Yeah, sure LOL. Hardly a realistic scenario.
No gloves, no rolling the sleeves up, no hair tied back. At least it's not like that hair is bright red, or those sleeves are black. I'm sure no one will notice anything. 🙂
Really, most of these shootings are so clean. More like a stage production. Back in the 60’s - 70’s, violence on TV was bloodless because it was censored. So, blood-free shooting. Just a less complicated plot that way.
@@zoltanurmosi1143 Just in this short clip: 2:20 There's no blood. There should be plenty. 4:42 The body is ridiculously light. Also, she can't know when it will be found which is of vital importance.
@@lauterunvollkommenheit4344 Columbo himself says nothing about the blood. The only thing he mentions at the end, is that she used a small caliber gun, in order for the bullet to remain inside the body. And regarding the weight of the body. ...it is a little obvious, such a relatively thin women, lifting the body of such a tall guy. Keep in mind, this is a pilot episode, if not mistaking
@@lauterunvollkommenheit4344 This is intentional for all episodes according to Levinson and Link. The convention of the series in that regard is that of an Agatha Christie novel where certain things intentionally take a back seat in exchange for certain rewards in the story itself. Hitchcock's films are like that, even much more so than here. Other things Levinson and Link insisted on was that Columbo was never to be shown at work (this was broken in the new series), he just appears and disappears from seemingly nowhere, so one could even argue he was some guy impersonating a police detective (highly improbable but it's interesting to constrain the writing in certain ways).
Yep; the briefcase. A cold cruel woman thinks she knew how to get away with murder and she almost did, but our Lt. Columbo forced her to make that mistake, and she does make that mistake.
" Fooled Everyone By Good Looks, Somebody Figure Her Out From The Box. Columbo made her out as the villain, Way back from start. His questions made body movements quivered. Columbo made an investigation start from there. Sometimes , beauty can attract you, But for freedom of life. They will do anything to escape. Another classic here.
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Columbus has always been my favorite. It’s too bad when it started in the 50’s like this one it was less than 10 minutes long for the whole show. They leave out a lot of details. Later they were as long as half an hour which was a great improvement. The TV had just been invented in the 50’s so the TV sets were a lot smaller so they couldn’t handle longer shows
The camera techniques used on this killing were simple, but brilliant, along with the eerie music and Lee Grants ice cold stare, make this one of the most chilling scenes in early Columbo. Never tire of seeing this one.
Lee Grant is still alive and either 96 or 98 years old.
Lee Grant was beautiful. Outstanding performance, from everyone.
This great series has really stood the test of time. It's testimony not only to Peter Falk, but to all the great actors who appeared with him to make it the wonderful programme it was. Everybody who was involved should be very proud.
Thank you for using the correct word: 'testimony'. Not 'testament'--that's a book or will. So their.
I like Jack Cassidy he was on three times
"Oh Leslie, I thought..." Poor guy never saw it coming.
This one was actually one of the most magnificent murder plots in Columbo
If not for Columbo she would have definitely gotten away with it.
All that work to make the fake ransom letter, and she forgot to wear gloves while making it. 🤣🤣🤣
She mailed the ransom letter to herself, to be open and read by herself. By the time the cops saw it her prints would justifiably be all over it anyway so there’s no point to wear gloves making it.
Love the way they never show her actually lifting the body in and out of the car.
Yeah, she must have been one strong woman. He was a large man.
One of my favorite Columbos. Lee Grant was superb.
In every way 🥰👍
Amen! I was a teen when the series debuted. One of the best things TV had to offer!♥️
I love the undercurrent between Lee Grant and Peter Faulk. AND the music wow
Ooooo that 70’s feel and that fat Lincoln. 😀😀😀
asteverino, It's truly a battleship, don't you think?
she's not wearing gloves while creating the ransom note.
My thought too! She’ll mail it to herself, I’ll bet, touch it, and call the police... Now, I need to see the rest of it! Good observation. 😊👌
She used self dissolving prints
Women don’t have finger prints
Or rolling up (black) sleeves, or tying back (flame red) hair.
Until the invention of cyanocrylite adhesive fingerprints could only rarely be recovered from paper.
Glad that these Columbo clips are coming in fast and furious.
Love the way the car head lights are superimposed on Lee Grants eyes after she kicks the body over the hill
Love the sound of shoes in these shows . She had beautiful hair
Wow that zoom in stare was priceless
Ransom for a Dead Man was excellent!!! Lee Grant was great.
I like the music playing at the beach in addition to Lee Grant's emotionless stare.
4:56
*When your husband you married for money and power finally says something he would say if he were kidnapped so now you can execute your long thought over plan of killing him*
4:55 late 2010's memes be like
The only IMPLAUSIBLE part of this scenario is how a 100lb Woman can Drag and Lift a 200lb Man into the Trunk of her car.
Loved this one. She was so pretty and evil. Lee Grant is still alive at over 90. 🍾🙌🏻
She's 95 and still at the top of my hit list.
@@djrychlak4443 I did not realise that she's the actress who plays Marti in Grease's mum.
She looks like Melania Trump.
@Nicholas Sakamoto I’m sure there are loads of people over 90, but she was in this clip which is why I mentioned it.
She was very beautiful I imagine she was in her 40’s when this was episode was shot
Finally! I love to see the scenes of this episode. She plays so well and looks so good.
She looks like the first lady, doesn't she, mr vice president? 🤣
Btw, even as an Indian, I'm pissed off at the results.. how can 300k votes just pop out at 3 30am in Wisconsin for Biden? I don't buy it
@@siddharthsen7035 xD true or better!
@@hungrymikepencetd5686 haha.. do u think the Texas lawsuit will change things btw
@@siddharthsen7035 It's 10 months later. Hope you've changed your tune.
Is this the one where she's a pilot and she scares Columbo by moving the plane around a lot?
Absolutely ,yes !
I skipped ahead right to the gunshot and jumpscared myself. I've never seen this episode before
Great Episode
My favorite Colombo villain, almost his equal.... almost
Odcinki, do których muzykę stworzył Billy Goldenberg to najlepsze odcinki w całej serii. Świetne połączenie ciekawych rozwiązań techniki filmowania z niesamowicie nastrojową muzyką.
Her fingerprints must be all over the ransom note.
I had a beautiful blue sculpted wool carpet, like the one in the murder scene.
Now I am wondering how much the awesome set design has actually influenced my preferences, lol.
Love the demented music at the beginning. Whatever became of Leigh Grant? Forgot about her
Lee is one of 3 stars of In the heat of the night to make it to Columbo episodes.
Why is it that all the people in this show are rich? And columbo dresses like an unmade bed.
She is sooooo beautiful!!! What an actress!!!
keep the uploads coming everyday! love seeing a new columbo clip
Wish we have a time machine-the 70s we have all the great actors-films LEE GRANT- PETER FALK-JOHNNY CASH in swan song and so on and on COLUMBO- just great
Fantastic episode!!! I've always been a fan of Lee Grant, in this episode she's beautiful & evil. She's no match for the Lieutenant though. 🙂
She was dumb. Columbo had zero proof until she tried to pay the man's daughter off. She should have called the girl's bluff and told her to go to Columbo then if she had evidence. It was only when she tried to pay the girl off that Columbo was able to arrest her.
@@misspriss2482 she was almost as smart.... she just lacked imagination.
@@misspriss2482 But the girl was very clever and put on a great act that she was most interested in the money. The step-mother fell for it. I wouldn't say she was dumb. If the girl didn't play along with Columbo's plan she would have gotten away with it.
@@GillAgainsIsland12why couldn't the stepmother claim that she was paying the girl just so she could go away and not be a nuisance day and night? She could also claim she was giving money to her out of her heart because the poor child deserved it as she had lost her father as well as her trust fund.
@@amjadmuhammadiqbal4721 Because they were marked bills. That's how the FBI planned on capturing the "kidnappers", by tracing where those marked bills were being spent. But the stepmother probably had a plan to launder that cash at a future date.
Fingerprints on ransom note. Check that first! She had no gloves on
I'm pretty sure that getting fingerprints off of paper was considered very difficult until the 80s or 90s. I remember reading something about an improved method involving lasers that made the practice more widespread and reliable.
Remberer the painting episode! Aunt edna was framed for murder: youyou touched them fingerprints were being dusted!
She mailed the ransom note to her own home. She’d be the one to open it, explaining any fingerprints.
Yeah it isn't unreasonable for her to have touched a ransom note she'd supposedly received. Finding her fingerprints on it wouldn't seem to prove anything.
The mausoleum I once worked in had a rug identical to the one he falls on.
+RADIUM CLOCK: Has this been confirmed ?
I love dt Columbo 😍 ❤ 💕 he's top one of the best. Classic detective . You can learn alot from him!
This is a full film and was released in 1971 .
Shortly before the beginning of the first of season of Columbo.
Yeah, this was released in March 1971, and the series started in September that year.
Lee Grant is a wonderful actress. Her daughter is Dinah Manoff, who was in Grease, among other films and TV shows, including Empty Nest on NBC.
What a beautifull and handsome woman
So was Patricia Mattick as Margaret
@@samkohen4589 she was alsof a handsome woman. Besides that I like natural women.
@@drh-2303 Sadly passed away at only 52
@@samkohen4589 Unfortunately in 2003 I think. She was a beautifull woman..Just like Deidre Hall and especially Jennifer Sky 😊😊👍
Corona on the anonymous letter at 9 seconds, a warning?
I wish modern movies had zany editing something like this.
This can be called alternatively , evidence galore. Even for 1970.
Fingertips, DNA, audio analysis, blood drops etc..
Beautiful actress this was pilot episode.great episode
During this time Universal television shows had a particular style where you can tell it was Universal presentation without the Logo. They had great producers, directors and writers and actors. Not like to day where we have nothing but trash
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams.
It strikes me that this is at least the third different video I've seen you leave this exact comment on. What's up with that?
So she shot him & he didn't bleed on the rug?
yeah, but they address that later on in the episode
Today's technology would recover her prints and DNA from the ransom note (no gloves)
Hey, she’s filling in ballots! Get her Columbo
2020... the cheat by mail election which ushered in a senile old man into office
Looking at this 50 years later, I mean those sets of the house looks like a some room from Queen Marie Antoinettes Palace. I mean a who decorates a house like that these days. Patrica Mattick, the stepdaughter died of cancer in 2003
At one time , they showed the Whole episode on YOuTube. Wouldn't hiring a good Divorce lawyer been a lot easier than killing him?
Maybe he had a pre-nuptial agreement.
She must have used magic bullets that kill but don't cause any bleeding.
At a certain distance, isn't there very little bleeding?
*Mrs Columbo* This was my husband's first attempt (minus the pilot Prescription for Murder) to introduce his highly individualistic style and mannerism into the character. The searching for pen in the dark was a minor stab. The royal throne detour and soap follow-up was a more sustained attempt. It's the little things.
This was very good. Except really did not like the part of the daughter.
A fascinating episode: one of the first and one of the best. It was an example of screenwriting that set the standard not only for the brilliant inductive skills Columbo would display over his seasons and entertain generations, but also for his skill at the chessboard with his nemeses in laying the traps that reliably caught them. It was as if he only needed to pull together enough clues of what had happened to extrapolate what his own next moves needed to be. Like Marcus Aurelius noted in Book 8; Verse 11: "What is this by itself in its own constitution, what is its substance or substrate, what its causal element, what its function in the world and how long a time does it persist?" Columbo was the Master.
But this episode included a terribly misogynistic scene, which displayed one of so many traits for which Columbo merited a kick to the keister with a size 13.
The best
not easy to lift a corpse what more to package it
Gotta disassemble it first. Or so I’m told.
Which episode was this because they didn't air it on TV
It was the second pilot, Ransom For a Dead Man. I didn’t know second pilots were a thing.
I don't care if she was a victim; the daughter scares me poopless.
I didn't get the motive for the murder. Anyone??
Greed.
2:06 she's so beautiful ❤
This is a pilot, before season 1 whose first episode is murder by the book, directed by Spielberg with the excellent Jack Cassidy.
Much later on, they did an episode where the villain was a film director who perhaps was modeled on Spielberg. I don't know how ideas are formed, written, or developed, but wouldn't be interesting if it were Spielberg who tossed off : hey what if I were a bad guy? what would it look like it?
Not using gloves. and the glue will pick up fingerprints
I watched this now on bits and pieces. What was her motive for killing her husband?
Money and emancipation.
i remember lee grant Harold Gould.
Dean Hargrove did the script
What was the thing she dropped out of the plane? The little green ish box with the light? She dropped it before she dropped the bag.
It was to show the “kidnappers” where the ransom bag had landed
@@Bshmjdsdyk Ahh thank you!!!
This episode's serving of Columbo's chili is especially nasty looking
So the killer portrayed by actress Lee Grant who was 5'-3" and all of maybe 125 pounds puts a 6'-0" 180-lb dead man in the car trunk all by herself??? Yeah, sure LOL. Hardly a realistic scenario.
1:52
No gloves, no rolling the sleeves up, no hair tied back. At least it's not like that hair is bright red, or those sleeves are black. I'm sure no one will notice anything. 🙂
Lee Grant was brilliant in this but she always wore wigs. Cant beleve this has been over 50 years ago
Really, most of these shootings are so clean. More like a stage production. Back in the 60’s - 70’s, violence on TV was bloodless because it was censored. So, blood-free shooting. Just a less complicated plot that way.
I guess there were no blood or splatter on that bright carpet, she did no cleaning easy solved case 🤔
Me in my house
This is a very silly episode, containing at least six impossible things.
Name a few. Pls. It would be very interesting to compare notes
@@zoltanurmosi1143 Just in this short clip:
2:20 There's no blood. There should be plenty.
4:42 The body is ridiculously light. Also, she can't know when it will be found which is of vital importance.
@@lauterunvollkommenheit4344 Columbo himself says nothing about the blood. The only thing he mentions at the end, is that she used a small caliber gun, in order for the bullet to remain inside the body.
And regarding the weight of the body. ...it is a little obvious, such a relatively thin women, lifting the body of such a tall guy.
Keep in mind, this is a pilot episode, if not mistaking
@@zoltanurmosi1143 Yes, this is the pilot episode. Does this fact matter?
@@lauterunvollkommenheit4344 This is intentional for all episodes according to Levinson and Link. The convention of the series in that regard is that of an Agatha Christie novel where certain things intentionally take a back seat in exchange for certain rewards in the story itself. Hitchcock's films are like that, even much more so than here. Other things Levinson and Link insisted on was that Columbo was never to be shown at work (this was broken in the new series), he just appears and disappears from seemingly nowhere, so one could even argue he was some guy impersonating a police detective (highly improbable but it's interesting to constrain the writing in certain ways).
Yep; the briefcase. A cold cruel woman thinks she knew how to get away with murder and she almost did, but our Lt. Columbo forced her to make that mistake, and she does make that mistake.
WHY POSTING THESE SCENES SO OUT OF ORDER ???? LATER SCENES WERE POSTED YEARS AGO !! ITS RIDICULOUS !!!
@Jerry Dalrymple LOL YEAH. ITS FUCKING DUMB
" Fooled Everyone By Good Looks, Somebody Figure Her Out From The Box. Columbo made her out as the villain, Way back from start. His questions made body movements quivered. Columbo made an investigation start from there. Sometimes , beauty can attract you, But for freedom of life. They will do anything to escape. Another classic here.
Little finger aloof my friend le Grant। Asking for Medical Grant not Granted Yet °°°°°^^^ Lee grant Virna the २: Medical College seats। Bombay at Shotpoint। Bindra listening? ८.३०
Why show 7 minutes worth?.. unsubscribing because that's just wrong.
+Terry Lorraine: Have you “unsubscribed”, or are you just blowing hot air ?
Columbus has always been my favorite. It’s too bad when it started in the 50’s like this one it was less than 10 minutes long for the whole show. They leave out a lot of details. Later they were as long as half an hour which was a great improvement. The TV had just been invented in the 50’s so the TV sets were a lot smaller so they couldn’t handle longer shows