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Overview
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Writers:
David Rayfiel (teleplay)
Stanley Ralph Ross (story)
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TV Series:
Original Air Date:
3 March 1974 (Season 3, Episode 7)
Plot:
A gospel singer wants to be rid of his zealous wife. But a murder made to look like an airplane accident does not fool the wily Lt. Columbo. full summary | add synopsis
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a wayward preacher meets up with Columbo more (18 total)
Cast
(Episode Cast overview, first billed only) | Peter Falk | ... | Columbo |
 | Johnny Cash | ... | Tommy Brown |
 | Ida Lupino | ... | Edna Brown |
| John Dehner | ... | Roland Pangborn |
| Sorrell Booke | ... | J.J. Stringer |
| Bill McKinney | ... | Luke Basket |
| Vito Scotti | ... | Mr. Grindell |
| Janit Baldwin | ... | Tina |
 | John Randolph | ... | The Colonel |
| Lucille Meredith | ... | Lady |
 | Richard Caine | ... | Bennett |
| Don Mantooth | ... | Phil (as Donald Mantooth) |
| Jefferson Kibbee | ... | Frank |
| Bonnie Van Dyke | ... | Maryann |
| Douglas Dirkson | ... | Jeff (as Doug Dirkson) |
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Runtime:
99 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.33 : 1 more
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Finland:K-18 (2005) (DVD) (self applied)
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In-joke: Tommy Brown refers to his unseen music arranger as "Nick Solacanto"; the director of the episode is Nicholas Colasanto. more
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Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Columbo says that a thermos is "metal inside glass". In fact, thermoses are invariably glass inside metal; they wouldn't work the other way around. more
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Lt. Columbo: Any man who can sing like that can't be all bad more
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Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for "Columbo" (1971)| Recent Posts (updated daily) | User |
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| what song ?? | jacobn-3 |
| I saw the light song | smily-14 |
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This Columbo episode is a real treat, as it features a singing Johnny Cash and footage from one of his actual concerts. Cash plays a singing evangelist who, with his domineering wife, travels the country performing religious music in order to raise money for a new tabernacle. Johnny's a little upset as he never gets to see any of the money. When he makes noise about it, his wife, well played by Ida Lupino, to keep him in line, prances out an underage member of the choir whom Cash once seduced. The Cash character plots a great murder by crashing his plane with his wife and choir member in it while he parachutes out.
I thought Johnny Cash did a great job. He had such a tremendous voice and presence, and acting was very natural and relaxed. All in all, a wonderful "Columbo."