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The first episode of this third season, LOVELY BUT LETHAL, was broadcasted on Sept. 23th, 1973. It's also possible to watch this episode in the DVD standard by purchasing Columbo - The Complete Third Season. Jeannot Szwarc, the director of this episode, also directed, among others, two cult movies for the big screen: Bug and Somewhere in Time (Collector's Edition) with Christopher Reeve. Vera Miles, Vincent Price and Martin Sheen are the guest stars of this episode.
In my opinion, the plot of this episode is somewhat weaker than those presented in the precedent episodes but the quality of the verbal duels between the characters saves LOVELY BUT LETHAL from oblivion. In particular, I liked a lot the scenes between Vera Miles and her young double Sian Barbara Allen, another victim of the nicotine.
A VHS to keep in your library.
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In one word "STUNNING"! If you are a Vera Miles and Peter Falk fan this is a must, must, got-to-have movie. The story line of a stunningly beautiful head of a cosmetic corporation called "Beauty Mark, Inc., Vera Miles, is completely captivating in this role, YOU CANNOT TAKE YOU EYES OFF OF HER. Peter Falk's seeming busybody absentminded detective work coupled with Vera Miles cold, vain and greedy need the a anti-wrinkle creme for dollars and the 2 murders that surround the plot make for a extremely interesting night at home with your partner and popcorn. Buy it, you'll watch it over and over again. It's one of Columbo's very best.
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After watching this great Columbo movie staring Vera Miles, now I fully understand why she was Alfred Hitchcock's first choice for the movie Vertigo, before Vera got pregnant and he choose Kim Novak. Need I say more.
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Although many "Columbo" purists consider the Steven Spielberg-directed "Murder by the Book" to be the best of the shows, I find it hard not to place "Lovely But Lethal" about it.
This one shows the cut-throat world of women's cosmetics with a knock-out performance by Vera Miles as Viveca Scott, a reigning diva who will stop at nothing to maintain a dominant position in that industry. She is supported by a very young Martin Sheen as an employee whose greed - and his relationship with Miles's character - becomes his undoing. Sian Barbara Allen plays a secretary with bribery on her mind. And the late, great Vincent Price is on hand in a small part as David Lang, one of Scott's chief rival. The brief scenes between Price and Miles are show highlights because of their exchange of "pleasantries."
One cannot praise the others without mentioning the man who for over thirty years has brightened the small screen with his effective and entertaining portrayal as the rumpled detective: Peter Falk. He is the master of the befuddled look, the "Oh, by the way" questioning, and the resolution of the crime by some truly ingenious bit of deduction.
Yeah, Columbo is only as smart as the scriptwriters. But Falk is such a joy to watch! This episode really lets him shine!
Now, honestly, could anyone but Falk have played this character? I think not!
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