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Richard Levinson has 3 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 1980s.
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Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.
Dir. William Link, Richard Levinson · With Peter Falk
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
Dir. Richard Levinson, William Link, Peter S. Fischer · With Angela Lansbury
A young terrorist kills and injures patrons of a Norfolk amusement park by placing homemade explosives on the track of one of its roller coasters. After staging a similar incident in Pittsburgh, he sends a tape to a meeting of major amusement park executives in Chicago, demanding $1 million to make him stop.
Dir. James Goldstone · With George Segal, Richard Widmark, Timothy Bottoms
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