Robert Culp plays a private detective named Brimmer.He's hired by Arthur Kennicut (Ray Milland), a prominent Los Angeles publisher.He tells the detective to follow his wife Lenore (Pat Crowley) he suspects of having an affair.She does, or did but instead of telling him he decides to blackmail her in order to get some information of the people close to her husband.But she doesn't want to play that game and wants to tell Arthur about the affair she had with the golf instructor.The short-tempered Brimmer kills her.Now Columbo (Peter Falk) appears to investigate the case and he gets some "help" from the actual killer.Bernard L.Kowalski's Columbo: Death Lends a Hand (1971) is another great episode in the Columbo series.Peter Falk was born to play this character.Robert Culp is terrific as Brimmer.And the legendary Ray Milland is fantastic as Mr.Kennicut.In Columbo series it was never about who did it.We always saw the murder take place.It was about how Columbo found out who did it.And in this one he works in a masterly way.Who else could come up with solutions such as Columbo does? Nobody, I can tell you that.
Review of Death Lends a Hand
