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louiseculmer — 9 years ago(December 26, 2016 09:45 PM)
Smacking him on the head is one thing, shutting him up in the wine dellar to suffocate is another. though one wonders why the father didn't leave the vineyard to the older son n the first place, knowing he was the one who loved it. Instead he leaves it to the brother who doesn't care. That doesn't really make a lot of sense. I should think Donald Pleasance would do all right in prison. He will probably get the other prisoners interested in wine, perhaps they'll start a secret winemaking racket, maybe with smuggled grapes or something. or maybe the prsion would even let them start their own vineyard and produce wine for sale. It would be a good way of keeping them occupied.
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Justice5 — 9 years ago(January 07, 2017 10:55 PM)
I could see him befuddling the jail house ruffians with his pithy insults-"insolent,muscule-bound heganists" while he longs for the "liquid filth" he loathed previously while having to entertain the love starved secretary on her weekly visits and tales of Marino Bros/Carsini "wine" being sold in cartons in Walgreen's for $4.99 or 2/$8.99.
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fredgarv79 — 9 years ago(December 25, 2016 09:16 PM)
it's fun to point out stuff like how thin his evidence is, I think about that all the time but what really is important is the characters and the great, great actors of the time. this episode is perhaps my favorite simply because of donald plesance and a great story idea, even if flawed.
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Ellsinore — 9 years ago(January 08, 2017 08:33 PM)
What a relief. This episode is one of my favorites, too, but I never understood the "evidence." Getting older, it's nice to get confirmation that others didn't get it either.
I resolved one night to watch it very carefully,
but I still didn't understand what the temp in the wine cellar had to do with anything. Did they even talk about the brother being in the wine cellar?
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Ellsinore — 9 years ago(January 24, 2017 10:09 AM)
But Carsini wasn't there when the power went out and spoiled the wine. He didn't even know about the power outage or the wine being ruined because they were in New York, I think, at the time?
There were plenty of reasons for Columbo to suspect Carsini, but how the murder was actually committed? Was there a clue that told him that? And, seems to me, being left in the wine cellar for one? two? weeks would do the trick, even without the power going out.
I'm still confused as to how any of that proved that Carsini left his brother in the wine cellar to die while he went on his trip to New York. The wine was a poor, unrelated victim of circumstance.
The wine reveal was great fun, but some connect the dots things were missing. Yes, Carsini was unnerved by the incident, and the secretary was putting the squeeze on him, so he caved. -
Gheelnory — 9 years ago(February 05, 2017 03:08 PM)
Ellsinore wrote:
There were plenty of reasons for Columbo to suspect Carsini, but how the murder was actually committed? Was there a clue that told him that? And, seems to me, being left in the wine cellar for one? two? weeks would do the trick, even without the power going out.
I'm still confused as to how any of that proved that Carsini left his brother in the wine cellar to die while he went on his trip to New York.
Columbo knew not only that the brother had died by suffocation, but that he couldn't have suffocated while scuba-diving as the staging indicatedboth because the car wasn't in the condition it would have been if left out that long, and because the brother wasn't known for fasting (and autopsy proved he hadn't eaten for days before his death).
If the wine was spoiled by heat then the wine had been kept somewhere without A/C for a few days. That wouldn't PROVE that the brother had died in the wine cellar, but combined with the facts that the brother had been seen arriving but not leaving (once the false testimony was discounted) AND that Carsini had motive to kill his brother, would have been good evidence in court, even if Carsini hadn't confessed.
As for Carsini in prisonfor those who've seen
The Great Escape
, it's impossible not to picture Blythe-the-Forger (another great performance by Donald Pleasence.)
.what a shame about Amazon deciding to close down these boards. Though apparently the trolling is bad on the superhero-movie boards (and some others), there are thousands of us who get real value from coming to read and post about the less-blockbuster fare such as our beloved
Columbo
.
If Amazon could make a profit on these boards, they'd continue them. How about putting ads on the boards (instead of just on the main-info pages)? They could sell annual memberships that would let users have a no-ads experience-lots of message board sites do that.
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OldSamVimes — 9 years ago(February 10, 2017 01:08 PM)
If Amazon could make a profit on these boards, they'd continue them. How about putting ads on the boards (instead of just on the main-info pages)? They could sell annual memberships that would let users have a no-ads experience-lots of message board sites do that.
I hate to say it, but I pay 7$ a month for Netflix and use these boards more than I watch Netflix.
This is one of the only websites I go to.
I'd have been willing to pay 3-5$ a month just to use the message boards during my night shifts, when they've helped me kill a few hours here and there over the past 4 years. -
Gheelnory — 9 years ago(February 10, 2017 02:56 PM)
Amazon would probably make a profit on these message boards even at the rate of $10 per year for a see-no-ads membership. (And I'm sure you're not the only one willing to pay even more.)
I'm still hoping they will stop and think about the business opportunity they're throwing away by closing the boards altogether. As someone was saying on the board for "The Affair," coming to the boards and then going to Amazon to actually pay for some movie or show is far from uncommon, for that individual.
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