Prescription: Murder (1968)
The perfect crime had one flaw.
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.
- Date of release
- 1968-02-20
- TMDB
- 7.8 / 10 (42)
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Genres
- Crime, Mystery, Drama, TV Movie
- Director
- Richard Irving
Casting
- Peter Falk — Columbo
- Gene Barry — Ray Flemming
- Katherine Justice — Joan Hudson
- William Windom — Burt Gordon
- Nina Foch — Carol Flemming
- Virginia Gregg — Miss Petrie
- Andrea King — Cynthia Gordon
- Susanne Benton — Blonde
- Ena Hartman — Nurse
- Sherry Boucher — Air Hostess
- Anthony James — Tommy
- Frank Baker — Man in Park (uncredited)
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