I supose that as long as there have been chess matches, there have been people who HAVE to win---so why do we feel that the young man, Harvey, represents what's wrong with the world today? Me, at all costs! Me, even if he's better. Me, even if I have to, yes, kill him.
The scene in the restarant, where both men are drawn into playing a chess game with all available eating and seasoning utensils (the checkerboard tableclth inspires them) is SO wonderful!
The old man, who is so sweet, he is alost uncomfortable with the knowledge that he is the better player, never suspects a thing, until he is lured into a horrible death. Um...almost.
Thank God for Columbo--one of only two men who can make me laugh without swearing, and who actually blushes when anyone sugests anything having to o with sex!moreless
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When a chess grandmaster realizes that he is unable to defeat his rival at a tournament, he resorts to murder and makes it look like suicide. But Columbo isn't fooled... and the victim isn't quite dead.
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Laurence HarveyEmmett Clayton
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Lloyd BochnerMazoor Berozski
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Jack KruschenTomlin Dudek
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Peter Falk
Lieutenant Columbo
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At the closing scene, the garbage cruncher is chewing away, and Columbo is yelling to Clayton. Clayton reaches up to his ear and yanks down, as if ripping out his hearing aid. Moments later, he does the same thing.
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When Clayton is preparing to sneak up to Dudek's room, he meets Columbo at the elevator. He is wearing his hearing aid. As he comes out of the elevator, the hearing aid is out. He hides close to Dudek's room and then walks in... wearing the hearing aid again.
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(After discovering that the toothbrush in Dudek's suitcase is not his but his roommate's) Mazoor Berozski: Lieutenant, then Tomlin Dudek could not have packed his own suitcase. Columbo: That's what I was trying to get around to, sir, yes. And if somebody else packed it who didn't know that he wore dentures then... Berozski: Then his accident was not an accident! Columbo: I, uh, thought you'd like to know, sir, that, uh, I think that is a possibility, yes sir.
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Columbo: The murderer just had to be a deaf man.
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90 minutes long.
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