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Originaltitel: Try and Catch Me

Folge lief am 27. Dez. 1980
TV-PG
1 Std. 13 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

8,2/10

3270

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Cop Drama Police Procedural Crime Drama Mystery Thriller

Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuAn old lady who writes popular mystery novels strongly suspects that her niece's husband murdered her, so she exacts revenge by asphyxiating him in her house safe while devising a solid alib... Alles lesenAn old lady who writes popular mystery novels strongly suspects that her niece's husband murdered her, so she exacts revenge by asphyxiating him in her house safe while devising a solid alibi. It's up to Columbo to unravel the subterfuge.An old lady who writes popular mystery novels strongly suspects that her niece's husband murdered her, so she exacts revenge by asphyxiating him in her house safe while devising a solid alibi. It's up to Columbo to unravel the subterfuge.

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IMDb-BEWERTUNG

8,2/10

3270

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

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At 80, Ruth Gordon (Abigail Mitchell) was the oldest actor to play a murderer in Columbo.

Patzer
Abigail locked her nephew in the safe, but it is a very big safe. It seems to be a room containing at least 20 cubic meters of air. If the nephew breathes normally, one cubic meter is more than enough for about an hour's stay, so he shouldn't run out of oxygen from one evening to the next morning. He ought to be alive and well when the secretary unlocks the safe.

Zitate
Lt. Columbo: You know, I can remember the only new car my father ever bought. How proud he was. The way it smelled. Kind of like the inside of a Pullman car. It wasn't like this though, I'll tell you that.
Abigail Mitchell: My father never owned a car. Not until I bought him one. I was 20; I'd just sold my first book. Shall we compare poverty stories, Lieutenant?
Lt. Columbo: Not in a Rolls Royce, ma'am.

Verbindungen
Referenced in Late Night with Seth Meyers: Sarah Silverman/Nico Hiraga (2021)

Soundtracks
This Old Man
(uncredited)
Traditional English children's marching song
[First two lines played by Peter Falk on piano. Later he whistles it.]

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Ausgewählte Rezension

10/10

Try and Catch this Episode "Try and Catch Me", A MUST!

For Columbo fans, such as myself, this is the episode of episodes that made a case for why Columbo was so popular, and just how good it really was. Ruth Gordon has a field day (as ever) playing the wittily intelligent crime novelist Abigail Mitchell. Seems Abigail calls her nephew-in-law to sign some papers making him her heir. She never got over her niece's death, and is convinced her dead niece's husband (Charles Frank) did the dirty deed. To tell more would be unthinkable. Mariette Hartley has a sly role as Abigail's personal assistant. This episode of Columbo is in a class by itself. It's a truly well made television movie. I recommend it most highly.