Movie
Ransom for a Dead Man
Overview
A brilliant attorney gets rid of her boring husband by faking his kidnapping and keeping the ransom. The FBI may be fooled, but not Columbo.
Details
- Release date
- 1972-10-09
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Genres
- Drama, Mystery, TV Movie, Crime
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Universal Television
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Peter Falk as Columbo
- Lee Grant as Leslie Williams
- John Fink as Michael Clark
- Harold Gould as Agent Carlson
- Patricia Mattick as Margaret Williams
- Paul Carr as Hammond
- Jed Allan as Phil
- Charles Macaulay as Richard
- Hank Brandt as Attorney
- Jean Byron as Pat
- Richard Roat as Perkins
- Norma Connolly as Celia
Crew
- Richard Irving - Director
- Richard Levinson - Story
- William Link - Story
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