Story Line
In Columbo's first outing, a psychiatrist uses a patient he is having an affair with to help him kill his wife, but his perfect alibi may come apart at the hands of a seemingly befuddled LAPD lieutenant.
“The perfect crime had one flaw.”
Top Cast
Peter Falk
Columbo
Gene Barry
Ray Flemming
Katherine Justice
Joan Hudson
William Windom
Burt Gordon
Nina Foch
Carol Flemming
Virginia Gregg
Miss Petrie
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Rating
7.8/ 10
Release Date
1968-02-20
Runtime
1h 40m
Genres
CrimeMysteryDramaTV Movie
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User Reviews (2)
Wuchak
9/10
•1/8/2019***“Prescription: Murder” (1968)***
PLOT: An arrogant, nonchalant psychiatrist (Gene Barry) murders his wife and uses his naïve actress girlfriend to get away with it (Katherine Justice), but Lt. Columbo strongly suspects the therapist and steadfa...
GenerationofSwine
10/10
•1/11/2023As far as detectives go, Columbo is my guy. He's the wrinkled low expectation mess that uses his appearance and working class persona to lull everyone into a felling of superiority that he can exploit...
... and that really works for the detective...