Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
A brilliant attorney gets rid of her boring husband by faking his kidnapping and keeping the ransom. The FBI may be fooled, but not Columbo.
- helicopter
- police
- ransom
- murder
- lawyer
- police detective
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Patricia Mattick — Margaret Williams
- Paul Carr — Hammond
- Jed Allan — Phil
- Charles Macaulay — Richard
- Hank Brandt — Attorney
- Jean Byron — Pat
- Richard Roat — Perkins
- Norma Connolly — Celia
- Harlan Warde — Paul Williams
- Bill Walker — Crowell
- Timothy Carey — Bert
- Directed
- Richard Irving
- Written
- Dean Hargrove, William Link, Richard Levinson
Production
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 · 61 ratings
- Studio
- Universal Television
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
