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Oct 09, 1972
95 min
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Ransom for a Dead Man (1972)

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.

Category

Drama Mystery TV Movie Crime

Country

United States of America

Companies

Universal Television

Peter Falk

Columbo

Lee Grant

Leslie Williams

John Fink

Michael Clark

Harold Gould

Agent Carlson

Patricia Mattick

Margaret Williams

Paul Carr

Hammond

Jed Allan

Phil

Charles Macaulay

Richard

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