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* PoorMansSubstitute: While it's a strong performance, at times it's quite obvious that Creator/RayMilland is channeling Creator/CaryGrant, who was Creator/AlfredHitchcock's first choice to play Tony.
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** The film is an obvious ancestor to ''Series/{{Columbo}}'', as a ReverseWhodunnit cracked by the unorthodox investigative techniques of a crafty police detective (who even does the "just one more thing" routine). So it was only natural for Creator/RayMilland to play the murderer [[Recap/ColumboS02E02 in one episode]] (where he kills someone named Tony). Even funnier, John Williams, who played the Columbo-prototype Chief Inspector Hubbard, appeared in [[Recap/ColumboS02E04 an episode]] as ''the murder victim''.

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** The In hindsight, the film is seems to be an obvious ancestor to ''Series/{{Columbo}}'', as a ReverseWhodunnit cracked by the unorthodox investigative techniques of a crafty police detective (who even does the "just one more thing" routine). So it was only natural for Creator/RayMilland to play the murderer [[Recap/ColumboS02E02 in one episode]] (where he kills someone named Tony). Even funnier, John Williams, who played the Columbo-prototype Chief Inspector Hubbard, appeared in [[Recap/ColumboS02E04 an episode]] as ''the murder victim''.
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** The film is an obvious ancestor to ''Series/{{Columbo}}'', as a ReverseWhodunnit cracked by the unorthodox investigative techniques of a crafty police detective (who even does the "just one more thing" routine). So it was only natural for Creator/RayMilland to play the murderer [[Recap/ColumboS02E02 in one episode]] (where he kills someone named Tony). Even funnier, John Williams, who played the Columbo-prototype Chief Inspector Hubbard, appeared in [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/ColumboS02E04 an episode]] as ''the murder victim''.

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** The film is an obvious ancestor to ''Series/{{Columbo}}'', as a ReverseWhodunnit cracked by the unorthodox investigative techniques of a crafty police detective (who even does the "just one more thing" routine). So it was only natural for Creator/RayMilland to play the murderer [[Recap/ColumboS02E02 in one episode]] (where he kills someone named Tony). Even funnier, John Williams, who played the Columbo-prototype Chief Inspector Hubbard, appeared in [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/ColumboS02E04 [[Recap/ColumboS02E04 an episode]] as ''the murder victim''.
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** The film is an obvious ancestor to ''Series/{{Columbo}}'', as a ReverseWhodunnit cracked by the unorthodox investigative techniques of a crafty police detective (who even does the "just one more thing" routine). So it was only natural for Creator/RayMilland to play the murderer [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/ColumboS02E02 in one episode]] (where he kills someone named Tony). Even funnier, John Williams, who played the Columbo-prototype Chief Inspector Hubbard, appeared in [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/ColumboS02E04 an episode]] as ''the murder victim''.

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** The film is an obvious ancestor to ''Series/{{Columbo}}'', as a ReverseWhodunnit cracked by the unorthodox investigative techniques of a crafty police detective (who even does the "just one more thing" routine). So it was only natural for Creator/RayMilland to play the murderer [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/ColumboS02E02 [[Recap/ColumboS02E02 in one episode]] (where he kills someone named Tony). Even funnier, John Williams, who played the Columbo-prototype Chief Inspector Hubbard, appeared in [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/ColumboS02E04 an episode]] as ''the murder victim''.

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