"It's All on Tape" | Columbo
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- Watching a recording of the conductor brings Columbo's attention to his attire, in particular the fact that he was missing a flower from his blazer. Could this be the clue that points to the murderer?
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The way he rudely dismisses his orchestra and blames them of feeling the way he feels is so crazy lol. Pure panic
Choir and orchestra directors were notorious for being outright abusive. I don't know if they still do that, but for some reason it was acceptable back then.
Why on earth do you need to type the idiot "lol"?
lol. The up bow direction when this is clearly not their first rehearsal stuck out at me but the condescending attitude blaming the orchestra felt totally legitimate. Far too many a musical director let us know that he has better things to do if we aren't going to actually work.
@@x--. is typing the idiot "lol" a prerequisite to joining this thread
@@melodiefrances3898 I had accompanied my local, retirees choir (I was the youngest at 63) on the piano for free for 13 years and we had a new conductor who insisted on being paid and then ‘sacked” me, very rudely disguised as caring by email out of the blue one morning. A couple of the choir members left in protest but most just went along with the rest of the sheep. So, it’s like anything I suppose. Some people are nice and others are not so nice
They are now paying a 23 yr old to accompany. The whole idea of the choir was to sing and have a nice time. All voluntary. Not any more apparently.
Columbo was good at singing this old man. lol oh and playing chop sticks on repeat.
John Cassavetes was incredible in this role as a pompous, self-important, egotist. Outstanding.
Thing I love about Columbo is how it's always one small detail that trips the suspect up.
and their own hubris and big mouths
I love how he trolls his suspects. Comes across as amiable but awkward at first.. Then just gets more awkward, annoying and always has one more question after the suspect has had enough of him and is upset.
The most powerful witness of them all: the video camera. He might have gotten away with his explanations if his wife wasn’t there to collaborate on things.
I think the part that made this important is not just the tapes but rather the tapes being shown to the wife. It wouldn’t have been half as effective showing them to just the suspect.
"Quasi una fantasia" is actually Italian. The script had Blythe Danner say "it's Latin" because the show had already established that Columbo spoke Italian. The Latin translation for "like a fantasy" would be something like "sicut phantasia."
I was wondering about that. I'm not an Italian speaker, but I do speak Portuguese and some Spanish, it's “como uma fantasia” in my native language, so it's very close to either. When he said it was latin, that didn't seem accurate to me.
Funnily enough, in a later series (10), Rod Steiger (Mafia don) asks Columbo:
'Don't you speak Italian, Columbo'?
Columbo says: 'No, not a word'.
Continuity error?
@@vguyver2 Yeah, I also thought "como" would be in there, and I almost mentioned that. But I am by no means a fluent or even conversational Italian speaker. I can just say some phrases. Interesting that Beethoven used "quasi" in the title. I thought "quasi" was closer to "almost" or "near" than "like" in Italian.
@@artmallory970 Possibly a continuity error since he speaks multiple Italian words/sentences in at least two earlier episodes. However, it's more likely another example of Columbo deftly playing dumb to gather more information, while keeping the suspect off guard.
It's like when he tells Leslie Nielsen in "Lady In Waiting" that "I don't drink" or "I never drink" (I can't remember.) But we know he drinks -- he's done it in several episodes. Nielsen isn't the killer in that episode, but he might not have been sure of that yet in that scene.
Musical terms are rarely written in Latin. In fact I don’t know any that are. Words to music often are in Latin but not terms.
what incredible acting by John Cassavetes.
Indeed, but his real strength was his ability as a director.
Yes
He made a total hash of the 'conducting'. Utterly laughable.
@@mediolanumhibernicus3353 True, LOL. Should have studied some real conductors!
@@mediolanumhibernicus3353For that reason alone he sucked. Anyone that ever played an instument as a kid saw right through that nonsense.
Like a mosquito, Columbo keeps buzzing around, appearing clueless and dumb until striking at the right moment.
A real flower gets spoiled very easily without watering and this one was still fresh meaning he was at the house earlier same day and placed him on the crime
Good thinkng.
Ooh, good point.
"Just one more thing!" Means I know you're guilty.
“Just two more things,” and one knows that they have beachfront property waiting for them on the Lake of Fire.
@@289cobra9 another great line:
“That’s what bothered me.” Lol
“I promise this will be the last time you’ll see me” means he has all the evidence except for a confession
That's Gwyneth Paltrow's Mom. Same face! John Cassavetes and Peter Falk were best friends irl. Another favorite episode of mine. 🔍
Same. I love the chemistry between Falk and Cassavetes, adore their film work together as well. And Paltrow was pregnant during the filming of this episode!
I was looking at some old photos once, including a picture of my sister when she was a toddler. And her eyes looked exactly like those of her children! It's kinda amazing.
Notice -- Blythe's hair is up when she is outside and in a down pony tail style when she steps into the viewing room.
Yes I noticed that to ...
GUILTY!
How does one notice such a thing?
Peter Falk is one of a kind
John Cassavetes played his role well here; he was one of the most believable villains ever appearing in Columbo.
Interesting that when they finally made the arrest, he was somehow allowed to bring his baton.
Colombo had such good writers, always fun and clever plots! And Peter Falk, what a guy! I would love to watch the whole series again (after seeing it about 7 years ago) but it's not available in my country :(
The music at the end, great stuff.
Love Columbo...
in a Jack Cassidy ep...made me chuckle when Columbo says...
"ahh..sorry but I was in the area!"..and an experated Cassidy replies..something like..
"dammit Columbo you're always in the area!!".
To “ Columbo “ channel…..thank you for all these clips bat also maybe to ask …….is it not at all possible now , to have full episodes ?
Nobody like Columbo, to "Conduct" an investigation
You could say the crooks 'orchestrated' their own demise...
@@artmallory970 😂😂😂😂
😁😁😁😁
He could have said that the flower had fallen off before the concert because he had put his coat on again to get his conductor's baton from the car or something and then the flower stuck somewhere in his coat and so it wasn't on his jacket during the concert. Later at Mrs. Wells home the flower then fell from the coat on the carpet and he put it back on his lapel.
An intriguing theory. I feel the ending here was very weak for that exact reason, there is more than one possibility for the flower disappearance and reappearance. It would never hold up in a court of law.
I think people forget sometimes there are no court trials in Columbo because the viewers already know who the killer is so court trials are unnecessary. The fun is in watching how Columbo follows up clues to catch killer we saw committing the murder near the beginning of each episode. To me obsessing if his cases would be won in some fictional TV court would only take away from the pleasure of watching the show.
It is NOT Latin, it is ITALIAN for "like a fantasy.". All notations on musical scores are written in Italian by tradition.
The criminals never ask for a lawyer in 'Columbo'. They just incriminate themselves further. I'm sure a lawyer could have introduced many reasons for the disappearing, reappearing flower.
Columbo is just about catching the criminals, in the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: Columbo, who investigates crime and finds the criminal; and the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders. These are NOT the prosecutor's stories. :)
I would guess about half of the people Columbo caught never ending up serving a sentence. Plea deals and the like would probably make many of the trials unnecessary. But he must have had a great win/loss record cause he was put on every big case... and some small ones.
Long ago, lawyering up was not a common thing to do. It was a trait of the times that stayed with the show.
It also helps Columbo makes the villain thinks he’s the smartest in the room. Play to someone’s ego and oh the things that slip out.
Well, I think his wife might very well have turned against him.
I suppose you could go back in time and write a letter to complain. I think about 1972 should be close.
They always think the can outsmart Columbo.
FUN FACT: To this day, Frank is still turning the lights on and off
I just noticed , after watching this episode several times and this clip many times, that the character of the conductor probably was modeled after Leonard Bernstein who was an arrogant, brilliant egoist who happened to be a musician without peer. The actor's body language and visage even models Bernstein's so well. I'd be even more surprised if the resemblance of attitude and body language was by chance
"Etude" might be a word I've never spoken.
I love John Cassavetes. What a shocking scene with him whispering.
2:51 at this point, he knows Columbo has him. The touch on her cheek like, "You just sealed my fate and you don't even know it"
Even if we knew from the start that the flower would finally do him in, the dramatic buildup to the finale is quite substantial thanks to the unbeatable team of Peter Falk and John Cassavetes.
I love this episode ❤
I have just watched this episode yesterday morning.
Yay! It's great, isn't it!
I was taking a number 2 at the same time.
When Columbo says “it’ll be the last time you’ll ever see me”, it’s “Hasta la vista, Baby”
I would have said "I had the flower in my pocket as I was having trouble keeping it pinned on my lapel, and when I was in Welles' home after the concert I put my hand in my pocket, the flower fell out, and I picked it up and put it on out of habit."
Convincing? Maybe not, but it's better than nothing and it's plausible. I think the typewriter and the car were far more damning clues.
Great episode one of the best.
My cutest detective ever ❤❤❤
I remember this one. I loved this scene.
His wife knew straight away as soon saw the flower 🌼 😅
Blythe Danner is just as beautiful as her daugher Gwyneth Paltrow, it's incredible...
More beautiful, imho.
She was pregnant with her when they filmed this episode.
@@melodiefrances3898 You are right. Blythe's beauty in her prime was far greater than Gwyneth who is also a very beautiful woman as well but not in her mother's league.
That makes no sense. Blythe came first.
@@r0bw00d No it makes perfect sense to everyone except you.
The way John Cassavetes still has to "control the room" even after he's caught is so chilling; when he finally gives in, he wants to leave cause it's "humiliating" to him. Such an amazing portrayal of a narcissist - no admittance, no remorse... just selfishness.
Benedict looked a little bit wilted at the end ,like his flower! 😮
Goodbye genius.
VCR's were so big back then
I can certainly remember.
Coloumbo usually knows who the killer is early on based on reactions and usually their willingness to give more information than an innocent person would but most of them have huge egos to admit anything until the evidence is in their face beware if a common officer is with columbo someone is going to jail that visit
1:50 it's not Latin, it's Italian.
Exactly. Very observant!
Thank you Sir
you anticipated me XD
@JustinCase780 ahh but Peter Falk (and Colombo)speaks Italian. I think he kust wanted an excuse to chat to the suspects wife in front of him, that she thinks it's latin and he doesn't correct her is just part of his act.
I find the criminals always offer suggestions and other possibilities.
John Cassavetes was a superb actor (and director come to that). I never saw a performance from him that wasn't spot on. Naturally, he's great as a sympathetic murderer here. The character even gets a handshake from Columbo, which doesn't seem quite right given Columbo's strong feelings of justice for the innocent victims in the cases he investigates, such as in this one (Maybe Columbo just reacts to the outstretched hand without thinking about it). The handshake is a surrendering action, the murderer finally giving way to a detective whose observation and detection skills he admires, realising he's been trapped without a reasonably plausible answer, unsupported in that by his long-suffering wife. Over its run, the series sensibly contained a mixture of opposites, weaved into different patterns: the innocent and the provocative victims, and the sympathetic and the unlikeable murderers. No end scene was identical to another, meaning that, even though we knew roughly the sort of thing we were likely to see, we were also presented with a variety of intriguing traps in the denouements (some more airtight than others, but all sufficient to make the murderer acquiesce). :-)
He was also completely nuts.
He and Peter Falk were great friends and good drinking buddies
@@redmustangredmustang Outside of the movie set yes. Falk has stated on camera that he didn't like Cassavetes as a director.
@@redmustangredmustang What is your favorite Columbo episode?
@@Romulan2469 Quite a few. I don't have an overall favourite really, although I prefer most of the 1970s stories to the 1980s series. I do like the first actual series episode after the two pilot eps, which I think was called Murder By the Book. It's the one with the writer being murdered by his co-writer played by Jack Cassidy (my favourite actor of those who appeared more than once as murderer in the series), who then drives to a lakeside holiday home as an alibi, and has to murder again: a woman who sees the murder and unwisely tries to seduce/blackmail the murderer and then gets murdered herself! It's also known as the one Steven Spielberg directed. How about you?
Dear Andie, please change the camera to lanscape orientation so we can see the readings without having to twist head to cope with vertical picture. Your hubby can help l am sure if it's difficult for you. Thanks.
Loved Colombo because the killers always thought that they covered all the details but Colombo always goes back and forth to see what doesn't fit. The male killers always thought that women would lie out of love. Such arrogance.
@00:48 cigarette company needed to have him smoking a cigarette. They paid for it of course, and it goes toward the actor's salary.
@@troy3456789
Cigarette advertising and/or sponsorship of any kind on TV was banned, effective January 2, 1971.
5:22 You can clearly see one of his eyes pointing at his nose while the other one is looking straight ahead.
Final movement of Eine Kleine Nacht Musik is painfully slow.
O yes ,,some did mention a lawyer!!
Second! One of my favorite episodes.
One that still earns my best respect for the full potential of Columbo.
Why is no one talking about Dog?! Look how cute he is!!
That premise wouldn't hold in a court in the real world.
But that's the point. It is television drama not the real world. It is just about the we the viewers seeing Columbo catch the killer we saw doing the killing. Why make more of it than that? Even the writers for the show say they do not write Columbo so that he has to win his cases in court. We the viewers know he is guilty.
@@patrickjohnson5658 Indeed quite the change from the Law & Order shows.
All he had to say when he picked up the flower at the piano was ‘oh I didn’t realize I left in my overcoat pocket, when I took it off it fell out on to the floor beneath the piano.’
Then again, we wouldn’t have had a Columbo episode with that scenario lol
A detail not really shown in this clip is that Columbo had seen the flower at the crime scene already, but waited to see if someone would try to pick it up. So if he did go there and was like "whopsie this fell out of my pocket" it would have put Columbo on him right away anyway.
@@konsmiddel He didn’t see the flower before It was picked up. After he picks it up, THEN Columbo sees him and says ‘you see something ?’ That’s the first time Columbo sees the flower.
That doesnt explain why he didn't wear it during the concert
@@CorelUser it doesn’t matter. It’s what he said at the piano. If he said ‘it fell out of my overcoat pocket’ then he could explain away the reason for not wearing it at the concert. ‘oh I didn’t realize I didn’t wear it during the performance. I forgot it was in my overcoat.’ He didn’t say that. Instead, he picks it up and puts it on his tuxedo jacket. Then he walks out and he’s filmed wearing it as he leaves her apartment
@@elementrypenguin3116 that doesn't disprove the wife's witness testimony
Blythe Danner was pregnant with Gwyneth Paltrow …and John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands and Peter Falk were very close friends ..did tv and movies together.
U HAVE 2 GET UP PRETTY EARLY 4COLUMBO ❤
Would Colombo, who knows italian, understand the latin phrase? Did he just want the conductor seeing him talk to his wife to turn up the heat just a little bit higher?
Fun fact: Gwyneth Paltrow is in this episode...kinda. Blythe Danner was pregnant with Gwyneth at the time of filming. If you look carefully, in various shots you can see how they tried to minimize Danner's "baby bump" with clever angles and clothing.
Columbo was the worst detective ever. The viewer knew who the killer was long before Columbo solved it.
Frank earned his money that day.😁
This show isn't a police procedural. It's about the cat (Columbo) and the mouse.
Not a conductor, thats really awful. No conductor would hold his baton this way, no conductor would move his body this way, no conductor would move his left hand this way. And smoking while rehearsing is a deep offense towrd the musicians of the orchestra. This guy has - on the top of all - absolutely no feeling for music.
In reality over 99% of Columbo viewers know absolutely nothing about music conducting so couldn't tell the difference anyway.
@@johnfinnegan8474 Sure. But this shows how badly these movies were made. For comparison, for the movie "the chorus", Gérard Jugnot had to learn conducting. Not praising french cinema (I despise froggies), just for comparison.
@@francoisplaniol1489 I am just taking a guess here but Columbo was made for television while "the chorus" was a movie made for the cinema with box office return in mind. Perhaps even back in the 1970's movies would have been more realistic than regular tv shows.
@@johnfinnegan8474 I guess you are right in all these points.
I love how smokey the room is. everyone smoking all the time. Crazy how something so universal fell out of fashion so fast
Unfortunately, it's not a proof of anything.
Maybe he found the flower and decided to put it on without being there before.
Columbo seemed so disgusted by this dude
What’s strange is that they are rehearsing the same piece of music that was preformed at the concert the nite of the murder… WTF why ??? 😂
Cause someone shat it during the first one
I've been in music for a long time and I cringe every time I see this guy "conduct"! Lol!
Me too, it’s terrible. I’m amazed he didn’t dislocate his shoulder. He is more a metronome than a conductor. I think the murdered pianists piano “playing” is pretty bad also. But it’s a great episode. Peter Falk seems to be really playing chop sticks though. And what a rendition. Repeat over and over and over again. I love it when he is being annoying to the murderer but has no embarrassment and smiles way to himself.
l love columbo ❤❤❤👍
Good bye genius...
He had to ask somebody what "Quasi una fantasia" meant? 🤨
I know, right? That doesn't really track since the show already established that Columbo knew Italian. But that's why had Blythe Danner's character say "it's Latin." There's some crossover between Latin and Italian, so most viewers probably didn't think twice about it. In reality, the Latin translation to "like a fantasy" would be "sicut phantasia."
@@RMR1there is an episode where he doesn’t know Italian which I thought was weird. Also in one episode he mentions having children where in all the others he says he doesn’t and is always talking about his nieces, nephews and cousins etc.
@@Soffitymaybe he's like the Joker, he has a different backstory everytime to confuse the suspects 😂
Fun fact. Blythe Danner was pregnant with Gwyneth Paltrow during this episode. She was born shortly thereafter.
Where’s the “fun” part?
@@TL2354 its Gwyneths first uncredited acting appearance maybe?
Idk
And him
The wife's testimony might not be admitted, he had a shot a beating it in court.
am curious why they had to hide blythe's pregnancy. i mean ohter than not a key to the plot of the episode. but even that would have taken one line of explanation and move on. she's actually pregnant and it barely shows up the way they shoot but in tennis match scene. which must have been fun doing pregnant. just curious why they shot around it when it wouldn't have done anything to leave it in?
We know he's the villain because of his absolute arrogance --- something he shares with most of Colombo's "killers of the week". It's especially evident in the way he treats the musicians.
To these people Columbo is the most annoying cop ever! Always taking things from homes without a search warrant, latching on the first person who shows up at the crime scene asking about it. And yes no one says "just talk to my lawyer "😂😂
There was one episode I remember with Jack Cassidy as the killer, when his lawyer warned him he was talking himself into a murder charge, he told him bluntly to shut up. He thought he knew better. Anyway he would only need a lawyer once he was already in custody at the police and before being interrogated.
@@patrickjohnson5658 😎👍
Quel épisode magnifique, une fois de plus dans ce Beverly Hills à la grande époque...
Et quand je pense que Blythe était enceinte à ce moment de celle qui fera plus tard des bougies au parfum de son vagin : que ce monde est étrange.
Is the vet the police squad laboratory guy?
They use a lot of the same actors in the episodes. Jack Cassidy (goodness I can’t believe how he died in real life, I hope he didn’t suffer) and Patrick McGoohan (how did he learn to speak Chinese, is it? ) make a few appearances. William Shatner does 2 I think.
Blythe Danner .. . . the most beautiful woman in the world. ❤
Blythe Danner is pregnant in this episode 🎉
👌✨️✨️🎥😊
Are you seriously trying to pin this murder on me with THAT?
Yes!
😂
Erm
Did anybody notice Gwyneth Paltrow hiding underneath Janice's sweater? Also, this episode was directed by Coach, from Cheers.
I didn’t know Blythe was her mum till I read the comments. She can’t have been very advanced as she looks pretty flat in her tennis outfit. Was that her real hair colour? Amazing if so.
Dayum, technology was different in 70's.
The cars were huge. You could fit four people in the front seat alone. No seatbelts.