"Just one more thing sir"
Says Lieutenant Columbo
The suspect is toast
"Just one more thing sir"
Says Lieutenant Columbo
The suspect is toast
“I knew this guy was exceptional. The show with Steven Spielberg was the first time in my acting career that I did a scene in which I was unaware where the camera was. In television, the camera is always right there. And we did a scene, and he said 'Action,' and we started to shoot, and in the middle of the scene I said, 'Where the hell is the camera?' - Peter Falk on the episode directed by Steven Spielberg
#columbo #television
https://www.slashfilm.com/1836483/steven-spielberg-columbo-episode-changed-peter-falk/
Watching episodes of Columbo and having to cover up and mute the first minute of the screen to avoid the trailer. Like, I'm already in, there is no need to see more of the how-solved-it!
“You are a very observant man Lieutenant.”
“That’s not what my wife says”
—Columbo
I remember many years ago reading *Crime and Punishment*, and thinking that Inspector Porfiry was a lot like #Columbo: he knows who's guilty from the start, and it's a question of eliciting a confession.
TIL: "The character of Columbo was created by the writing team of Richard Levinson and William Link, who said that Columbo was partially inspired by Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment character Porfiry Petrovich".